New research is shining a light on one of genetics' enduring puzzles—how the workings of the so-called "selfish gene" could ...

New research is shining a light on one of genetics’ enduring puzzles - how the workings of the so-called “selfish gene” could ...

Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver disease. The death sparked an investigation ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing ...

This investigation explores how hacking human genetics could transform the future of our species. From disease resistance to enhanced abilities, the possibilities are vast and controversial. Oregon ...

As we age, the genes in our cells accumulate more mutations. This is one of the contributory factors to age-related diseases and the aging process. However, in a new study published in Science ...

A team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed two new genome editing technologies, ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

Cock Van Oosterhout receives funding from the Royal Society for conservation genomics work on threatened bird species in Mauritius, and a donation by the Colossal Foundation for conservation genomic ...

In previous studies, researchers have investigated the use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to create gene drives in mosquitos. Gene drives are genetic elements introduced into the genome that ...