How does your body produce millions of antibodies from one genome? New research reveals how two closely related proteins help ...

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

Scientists at the University of Rochester pulled off a remarkable experiment: they transferred a longevity-related gene from the famously long-lived naked mole rat into mice, and the mice ended up ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists. By Carl Zimmer Scientists at Columbia University have ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that a single injection of a small, circular piece of genetic instruction can ...

Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

More than six years since the pandemic, COVID-19 infections have become a near-universal experience. Most people have tested positive at least once. Many have had it multiple times. And yet, a small, ...

Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D., an American pioneer in plant sciences known as the “Queen of the Agrobacterium,” died on June 24, ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have identified a compound that sharply reduced nerve-cell death in mice engineered to develop ...

In a few cases, the extinction of a species would be a good thing. That’s a controversial opinion, but I do think the world would be better off, for instance, without malaria-spreading mosquitoes. We ...

California voters can choose any primary candidate, regardless of party, and two candidates from the same party can potentially face off in the general election. By Livia Albeck-Ripka For more than a ...