Construction has begun on a new centre for gene and cell therapy in the German capital, Berlin. The "Translation Centre" will ...

Wheat is one of the world's most important staple foods, especially in the form of bread. A joint study by the Leibniz ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

Prominent critics say Sarepta’s Elevidys Duchenne therapy may overstate how much gene it delivers—raising new questions about ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing ...

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have cracked open the secrets of plant stem cells, mapping key genetic regulators in maize and Arabidopsis. By using single-cell RNA sequencing, they ...

Dr. Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to hereditary cancer risk with the identification of BRCA1. She was just getting started.

While our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease is far from complete, the latest therapies, and others in more than 100 ...

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...

That scattering is called the Tyndall effect. It’s the same phenomenon that makes the sky or ocean look blue, even though the ...

Yes, cancer is fundamentally a genetic disease, but not only a hereditary one. Most cancers arise from mutations acquired during life (somatic mutations) interacting with inherited genes and ...