A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...

A new study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease and ...

Scientists have identified a tiny genetic change—present in nearly all living humans but absent in our closest extinct ...

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new ...

The plant-editing system uses mRNA to avoid the risk that foreign DNA could be left behind and create unwanted mutations.

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that mice squeak when it is incorporated into their DNA.

The effectiveness of a common drug to quit smoking could be down to people's genes, according to a study from the University ...

“We’re literally walking on DNA, both from the present and from the past.” Eske Willerslev Thanks to a few well-funded labs like the one in Copenhagen, the gene time machine has never been ...

Thanks to the growing field of epigenetics, we're learning more about the interplay of genetic inheritance and environment in ...