The tree of life is often more like a vine that snakes back on itself, with tendrils briefly embracing before they reach for ...

Life Sciences Center (LSC) have discovered a unique way for cells to silence specific genes without cutting DNA. This ...

People inherit two copies of each gene—one from each parent—an evolutionary fail-safe to ensure survival even when one of ...

Genes play a powerful role in shaping your health—you won’t believe how your DNA influences everything from ADHD to Parkinson ...

Researchers have developed synthetic genes that function like the genes in living cells. The artificial genes can build intracellular structures through a cascading sequence that builds ...

As Antarctic krill face unprecedented challenges in the Southern Ocean, a new project has been launched to better understand ...

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

Synthetic genes, though few, can generate complex biomolecular materials when their expression is part of a temporal control ...

This is known as gene regulation. This year, developmental biologist Victor Ambros and molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun are ...

Scientists pinpointed 80 gene variants, including eight tied to fatty acid metabolism, that may cause breast cancer in some ...

People inherit two copies of each gene -; one from each parent -; an evolutionary fail-safe to ensure survival even when one of them doesn't function.

DNA editing makes permanent changes to a person’s genome and ... make mRNA vaccines to treat COVID-19 and the ...