Often referred to as the ‘gold of the North’, Baltic amber serves as an exceptional natural time capsule, preserving a fascinating variety of flora and fauna. Cutting-edge scientific discoveries ...

Without advanced DNA testing developed by a Texas lab, Iowa City Police investigators may not have been able to identify an ...

MIT researchers have dramatically lowered the error rate of prime editing, a genome-editing technique based on CRISPR. This advance could make it easier to develop gene therapy treatments for a ...

The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so "degraded and contaminated" that ...

The man accused of fatally shooting conservative influencer Charlie Kirk at a Utah university last week has been linked to ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals that cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) ...

At WIRED Health 2025, Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui and genomics pioneer George Church laid out their view of the future of ...

Hospitals may soon have a faster option, thanks to a groundbreaking system built in part by Sneha Goenka, an assistant ...

We have all heard people say that love heals. But what if science actually backed that up? Beyond just emotions, a researcher recently claimed that love can literally affect your body at a genetic ...

This study demonstrates that NGS-MSI is noninferior to IHC-MMR and can identify MSI-H tumors that IHC-MMR is unable to detect and conversely IHC-MMR can identify MMRd tumors that NGS-MSI misses. This ...

The movement of genetic material between organisms that aren't directly related is a significant driver of evolution, ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...