RIKEN researchers have demonstrated the protective effects of a specific genetic mutation against Alzheimer's disease in ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

A global infestation of bed bugs after World War II was nearly eradicated in the 1950s with the use of the pesticide dichloro ...

Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves ...

A global infestation of bed bugs after World War II was nearly eradicated in the 1950s with the use of the pesticide ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal ...

Investigators have developed STITCHR, a new gene editing tool that can insert therapeutic genes into specific locations without causing unwanted mutations. The system can be formulated completely as ...

Some species seem to live fast and die young. Others, though, “appear not to age,” says João Pedro de Magalhães, a molecular ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

One of the most well-known and studied genes is MC1R. In animals, loss-of-function mutations in the MC1R gene can result in light, yellow or reddish coat color. In humans, redheads have up to five ...