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

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects ...

Analysis of more than one million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence ...

In a study published in Genome Research, a team of researchers, including Cornell College Assistant Professor of Biology ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks ...

A cutting-edge therapy using base-edited immune cells is offering a major breakthrough for patients with one of the toughest ...

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