The farmyard chicken has emerged as an unlikely lynchpin in the research to protect its endangered wild cousins - and even ...

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

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

Researchers from the Mitochondrial Medicine Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have better characterized a spectrum of what were classically considered discrete mitochondrial DNA ...

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

Building a gene editor took months. With CRISPR even high-schoolers can get hold of editing systems in the time it takes to order RNA sequences online and have them shipped by FedEx. In a short while ...

Maritza Glean Grimmett's remains were found in Lake Forest in 1983. She was identified just last year. Now, investigators say ...

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

A major scientific effort is underway to uncover elusive deep-sea species in Australian and New Zealand waters, using cutting ...

Roche has put forward a new approach to genetic analysis, which it describes as sequencing-by-expansion—a proprietary method that pulls apart the DNA molecule and amplifies the signal of | Roche said ...