Doctoral graduate Zanetta Toomata was amazed at high school in Hawaii to learn that something as tiny as DNA could hold the ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has led the attacks on US science. But can he really, as Robert P Crease wonders, be compared to Stalin’s feared science administrator Trofim Lysenko? Shocking ...

An evolutionary "trap" has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise—yet persists all the same.

A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers ...

FREE: Did you know Alabama residents can get free genetic testing with one easy at-home kit. One local woman tried it, and the results helped her take charge of her heart health. Here’s how it works.

Inside the station, every surface was wrapped with more ads—babies on turnstiles, on staircases, on banners overhead. “Think ...

When DNA breaks, cells must repair it accurately to prevent harmful mutations. Researchers have discovered that during a key ...

When Dr. Khaoula Belhaj-Fragnière speaks about seeds, she is not talking about something simple or ordinary. To her and to millions offarmers across the world, a seed is the first and most essential ...

Ultrastructure expansion microscopy of murine male germ cells reveals the fine molecular structures of centrioles (shown in ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...