Scientists at a NY university say they can bring back the near extinct American chestnut tree, wiped out a century ago, ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

More than 120 new Florida laws kick in on Wednesday, July 1. Some are minor changes, but some you need to know now.

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Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a company that's working on de-extinction innovation to try and ...

Scientists have created the most detailed maps yet of how genes control one another inside the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Using a powerful new AI-based system called SIGNET, the team ...

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...

Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

What do Botox, rat poison, weight-loss drugs and a fictional murder investigation have in common? At the University of Nevada ...

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...