Advances in genome editing are transforming the treatment for rare genetic diseases, as seen in the case of seven-month-old ...

Chris Kaelin, a geneticist at Stanford Medicine, found himself thinking about cats. Not just any cats, but the loud, lovable, ...

Iowa State University researchers have unlocked new secrets within the bacteria responsible for the creation of thousands of ...

Losing sight is not just a physical experience — it reshapes the architecture of the inner world, Garrett Jones writes.

Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology—Agrobacterium tumefaciens—to transfer its DNA ...

Scientists built a complete wheat gene map showing how different genes control plant growth and stress response.

A gibbous moon hangs over a lonely mountain trail in the Italian Alps, above the village of Malles Venosta, whose lights dot ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells.

Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California 90095, United States Department of Molecular and ...

Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat ...

Two days after four teenage girls were found murdered in a burning Austin yogurt shop in 1991, a man with a pistol in a stolen car was arrested at a border checkpoint west of El Paso. Nearly 34 years ...

Human fertility hinges on a delicate molecular ballet that begins even before birth. UC Davis researchers have uncovered how special protein networks safeguard chromosomes as eggs and sperm form, ...