The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other ...

New research published in Molecular Neurodegeneration has revealed that mutations in three genes known to cause familial ...

The mystery of life’s beginnings has long captivated scientists. Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

while being robust to molecular and environmental noise. Here, Eremina et al. show how the cyanobacterial clock buffers genetic and environmental perturbations through its core phosphorylation ...

A study has found that an ancient protein motif that binds to nucleic acids is functionally "ambidextrous." This means that ...

Since the development of CRISPR gene editing, leaders in the field have foreseen a future in which CRISPR could be used to repair any genetic disease ? including rare "N-of-1" diseases caused by ...