Scientists are celebrating DNA Day, marking the completion of the human genome project in 2003. The project successfully ...

Over 98% of our DNA was once dismissed as ‘junk,’ but scientists are now uncovering its hidden roles in health, disease, and evolution. From microproteins to transposable elements, the dark genome ...

For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...