Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...

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

The need to change regulations around gene-editing treatments was endorsed in November by the head of the US Food and Drug ...

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 ...

Researchers uncover geometric principles governing how particles self-assemble, solving a long-standing challenge in ...

Researchers say discoveries could expand the CRISPR toolbox and lead to more efficient, rapid diagnostic tools for detecting COVID-19, influenza, and RSV.

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most ...

Scientists have recovered a sample of DNA from a Leonardo da Vinci drawing that could belong to the Renaissance polymath.

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