The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study ...

In a new study published in Nature, scientists have successfully developed genetically modified mosquitoes in Tanzania that ...

In a landmark study published in Nature, scientists from the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) and the National Institute for ...

Trailblazing geneticist Pengfei Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor ...

Renowned molecular biologist Yunsun Nam, Ph.D., Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Doris and ...

Disease development is often shaped by genetics, with how much or how little a gene is expressed influencing disease risk.

He was cast as a real-life Dr Frankenstein, a scientist whose ego had led him to tamper with human life. After more than a hundred Chinese scientists issued a statement condemning his experiment, ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

Dr. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke is spending the fall semester in Florianópolis, a city in southern Brazil, to study the ethics of ...

The patchwork rollout of a gene therapy exposes weaknesses in the pricing and regulatory frameworks that determine who ...

Lurie Children's Hospital officially announced an expansion of research with the $11 million from Don and Anne Edwards, who ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...