Canadian researchers have unraveled a genetic "code within a code" that helps explain how the instructions for building complex organisms, like humans, can be found in a small number of genes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA in the human ...

Post doctoral fellow Leslie Mitchell works at her bench at a New York University lab in the Alexandria Center for Life Sciences in New York, where researchers are attempting to create custom-built DNA ...

One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function are ...