The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

NIH-funded UT team and colleagues from Metagenomi Thereapeutics discovered highly efficient enzyme could enable targeted gene editing within the human body.

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an international team of collaborators have used a ...

So far, clinical applications of CRISPR-based gene editing have been largely limited to editing a person's cells outside of their body and then ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the Great Basin bristlecone pine, the oldest known individual non-clonal organism on ...

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

A study shows that extra chromosomes in fetal cells create pre-leukemic clones that can persist for years, requiring later triggers to develop into leukemia, revealing a two-stage disease model.

Every year, sepsis kills roughly 11 million people worldwide, more than lung cancer and heart attacks combined. Despite ...

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that temporarily disabling a protein complex that organizes DNA into loops ...

The USC research team that recently identified the hormone-encoding gene GDF15 as a key driver of pregnancy sickness has ...

A research team has discovered an enhanced CRISPR gene-editing system that could enable targeted delivery inside the human ...

Sakamoto talks to professor Alexander Nemerov about the role of the artist in our modern technologically-dependent world.