Perhaps you’ve read in a biology textbook that humans have the same number of genes as Caenorhabditis elegans, a worm used in ...

The story of Neanderthals is written in bones, genes, and evolutionary shifts that span hundreds of thousands of years. These ...

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

The scientists found something interesting: marijuana use was linked to changes in a process called DNA methylation. This ...

Genes shape brain structure and may influence neurological disorders like Parkinson’s and ADHD, revealing new insights into brain health.

Dr Anna Berenson has started a five-year project to perfect the process of creating one bird species from a close relative ...

Bluebird Bio will sell itself to private equity firms Carlyle and SK Capital for about $30 million, the company said Friday.

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

Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...

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

House Bill 327, sponsored by State Rep. Gino Bulso, R-Brentwood, will permanently designate June as Celebration of Life Month ...

It’s a race against a single genetic marker — and musician turned biotech start-up CEO Casey McPherson says the stakes for ...