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

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

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

Drug development in biotechnology takes time. A lot of time. On average, it takes 10 to 15 years to take a medicine from ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

In this GEN webinar, our expert speakers will explore cutting-edge drug discovery techniques for target deconvolution and multiplex target discovery.

A recent study highlights how DNA microarray technology enables high-throughput gene analysis, supporting variation detection, expression ...

Friedreich's ataxia (FA) is a rare but devastating genetic disorder. Those with the condition are often diagnosed between 5 and 15 years of age and ...

UCSF’s Program in Craniofacial Biology (PCB) brings together researchers to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms ...

The achievement remains a celebrated agricultural breakthrough. As a result of his cutting-edge plant breeding research on ...

Cellular, animal and computational models of the disease are providing fresh insights into biology and treatment.