Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

For introducing regions of human chromosomes greater than a megabase into cells or animals, we have developed a chromosome-cloning system in which defined regions of human chromosomes can be cloned ...

For the first time, KIT researchers managed to reduce the number of chromosomes in a plant by fusing two chromosomes. (Illustration: Michelle Rönspies ...

Some still use Watson’s scientific authority to justify their own racism, while others insist he simply stole credit from ...

Hosts David and Gina explore how scientists over the centuries unlocked the ability to edit our genes ...

By the time James Watson died earlier this month at the age of 97, he was one of the world’s most famous — and infamous — scientists. In 1953, he and three fellow researchers co-discovered the ...

Predictive indicators for whether a child will be vulnerable to certain diseases after birth, as well as their future height, skin tone, and other traits, are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

The pursuit of wellness has often taken a piecemeal approach. Perhaps a more productive and efficient strategy would be to focus on slowing down the aging process.

The universal features that define genomic regions acting as replication origins remain unclear. In this study, we mapped a set of origins in Trypanosoma brucei using stranded short nascent strand ...