UCLA Health researchers say study findings uncover Huntington's disease mechanisms and pave new ways to develop treatments.

One of the key challenges of the modern genomics era is studying the thousands of genes in a single human cell at scale. To ...

Scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders -- by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and using it to 'vaccinate' ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." ...

Men who experienced abuse or neglect in childhood show distinct changes in the molecular makeup of their sperm, according to ...

They use CRISPR-based engineering methods to prompt stem cells to organize into "programmable" embryo-like structures, also known as embryoids, which can be used to study the role of certain genes in ...

The Chinese scientist who was imprisoned for secretly creating the world’s first genetically-engineered babies has claimed he ...