Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Researchers say they can improve rice harvests and grain quality by essentially turning off a temperature-sensitive gene ...

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that ...

Cohesin is a protein that forms a ring-shaped complex which wraps and alters the DNA molecule shape. It moves through the DNA ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, ...

The personalized CRISPR treatment could be the future of gene therapy, but hurdles remain before everyone has access.

Men who carry two copies of a common genetic variant are twice as likely to develop dementia than women with the same ...

I want my family to understand our shared cancer risks, but I sometimes struggle to face the painful reality of the disease ...