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

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic ...

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

Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By ...

If a pig embryo infused with human cells truly became something close enough to count as a member of the human species, then ...

Researchers discovered that a tiny structural feature of the enzyme GPX4 helps keep neurons safe. A rare mutation removes ...

To the research team working to save him, KJ Muldoon was first known only as Patient Eta. But within months, KJ’s name — and ...

On a video call in early September, Sarah Tabrizi first saw the data that she and other researchers studying Huntington’s ...

A Nobel laureate, he identified an enzyme that cuts DNA, laying the groundwork for milestones in scientific research and ...

This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...