In the first instalment of a series to mark the 10th anniversary of the Future Science Prize, Holly Chik and Shen Xinmei look ...

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

An international team of researchers published a study in the journal Nature Communications, revealing new insights into life ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

The move comes after Commission Chairman Clint Didier invited a group of vaccine skeptics to speak at two recent meetings. It’s the same group behind recent pushes in Idaho to stop offering the ...

MOSCOW, Idaho — A judge this week declined to throw out key evidence against the man charged in the killings of four ...

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 ...