As genetic engineering technologies such as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) improve and ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to target RNA that could lead to new treatment options for ...

Nature is full of surprises, but few are as fascinating as hybrid animals, creatures born from crossing two different species ...

A gene that is important for human hearing could determine whether a dog’s ears are pendulous like a basset hound’s or stubby ...

Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s ...

Gene editing is rewriting the future of medicine, as seen in the case of a baby named KJ Muldoon who got a fully personalised ...

Yesterday we explored four key myths and why they don’t stand up to scrutiny: ‘Vaccines were never properly tested’ ...

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

Many genetic variants linked to inherited eye disorders rarely lead to disease, meaning up to 2% of people could carry these variants without ever developing vision problems, according to a new s tudy ...

Genetic disorders occur due to alterations in the primary genetic material, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), of an organism.

CLASSIC enables large-scale testing of complex DNA circuits in human cells, advancing data-driven synthetic biology.

For those born with certain types of congenital deafness, the cochlear implant has been a positive and enabling technology.