One of the most commonly used gene-delivery methods relies on engineered viruses to insert stretches of genetic material into ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

The slice of code — a stretch of DNA that acts like a dial to turn up the expression of certain genes — expanded the outer ...

Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme ...

Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two ...

The northern white rhinoceros is one of the rarest animals on Earth, with just two females left and no natural way for the ...

At MIT, one genome researcher is testing a different approach. Bin Zhang, associate professor of chemistry and the leader of ...

For the first time, an international study has deciphered the genome of the population of Brazil. Published in the journal ...

The genome incorporation mechanism for LINE-1, the only autonomously active retrotransposon in humans, leverages the cell ...

(CN) — For the first time, scientists have used generative AI to create synthetic DNA that can control how genes behave in ...

Zhang and Wolynes built a computational model that would allow them to test DNA's resistance to knotting in different scenarios. Thus began Zhang's lengthy investigation of how the human genome ...