As genome editing therapies move through clinical trials to regulatory approval, scientists continue the quest for the holy ...

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

DNA is contained in each cell of every plant, animal, fungus and microbe. It carries the genetic instructions needed for an organism’s survival, growth and function, and the DNA of each species is ...

Nadine and David Lipworth have devoted their lives to finding treatment that will restore the daughter they knew.

In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in transcribing DNA into RNA, and ribosomes, which bring up the rear translating ...

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...

Having the right conditions and raw material for life does not mean that life can originate or arise by chance.

Few areas of medicine generate as much fascination, hope, hype, and confusion as genetics. Just over two decades ago, ...

Shelbey Thornburgh was 20 and saving for surgery when a client arrived at her Houston apartment at 8:33 p.m., appearing calm ...

Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.

Jason Chin, founder and CSO of Constructive Bio, and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of ...

Scientists have built a synthetic cell from scratch in a world-first breakthrough that paves the way for creating entirely artificial forms of life.