WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The virus that causes COVID-19, which scientists refer to as SARS-CoV-2, likely does not integrate its genetic material into the genes of humans, according to a study published ...

The University of Wisconsin’s Lim Lab has identified the cause of chromosome instability associated with a range of genetic ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

Around one million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, each year. To replicate and spread the infection, the virus must smuggle its genetic material into the ...

The omicron variant may have evolved from the virus associated with the common cold, researchers out of Cambridge, Mass., said in a preliminary study released Friday, which suggests the variant could ...

Humanity is losing the genetic diversity that sustains life on Earth at a pace that should alarm every nation. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, about 75% of the world’s crop ...

A vial of the positive control material from NIST that can be used to help ensure the accuracy of tests for monkeypox. (R. Press/NIST) In an effort to help speed the expansion of monkeypox testing in ...

Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on ...

In what may be the first experiment of its kind, researchers have used microparticles derived from mesenchymal bone marrow cells to treat brain cancer. Neurologists from Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital ...

This week, the Food and Drug Administration is meeting with a panel of experts to examine fertility methods that involve using the genetic material of three separate individuals. Critics worry that ...

A new trade agreement to export genetic material to Kenya has opened the door for UK sheep and goat breeders to a 46 ...