A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

A large genetic study shows that many people carry DNA sequences that slowly expand as they get older. Common genetic ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Belarusian scientists have assembled a unique collection of DNA from Belarusian long-livers, which contains biomaterial samples from 200 people over 90 years old and about 500 people aged 60 to 89 ...

Newcastle University, UK, clinical exercise physiologist Sam Orange reports in the Int. Journal of Cancer,* summarized in ...

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...