Environments are littered with the DNA of the creatures that inhabit them. Analyzing it could provide a real-time view of how ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered a tiny genetic change in the NOVA1 gene that exists only in modern humans — not in ...

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

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

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

Scientists employ deep learning to analyze and compare gene regulation across various cell types in human and chicken brains.

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

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 ...

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

A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or ...

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 ...