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

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 ...

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 ...

RNA splicing is a cellular process that is critical for gene expression. After genes are copied from DNA into messenger RNA, portions of the RNA that don't code for proteins, called introns, are cut ...

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

Lanoue pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, kidnapping and committing a forcible lewd act on a child under 14, forcible ...

Scientists discovered that DNA mutations influence aging by altering epigenetic changes and biological clocks.