A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

In a New York City lab microbial geneticist Norberto Gonzalez-Juarbe leaned over a fragile Renaissance drawing and gently ...

Molecular mechanism uncovered in mice by UC Santa Cruz researchers reveals how a father’s diet, stress, and other ...

Engineers at the University of California have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the ...

Thanks to genetic science, gene editing, and techniques like cloning, it’s now possible to move DNA through time, studying ...

Do you love the warm smell of cinnamon or can't you even stand to smell it? Science has discovered that this difference goes ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

This week researchers from the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project announced they have made the kind of breakthrough you might ...

A large genetic study shows that many people carry DNA sequences that slowly expand as they get older. Common genetic ...

The need to change regulations around gene-editing treatments was endorsed in November by the head of the US Food and Drug ...

The lab, which expands upon an effort by UCSD and Scripps Research, will use wastewater analysis to detect flu, COVID and RSV ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...