"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

The authors confirm that telomeres in telomerase-positive cells terminate with 5'-ATC in a Pot1-dependent manner, and demonstrate that this principle holds true in telomerase-negative ALT cells as ...

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

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters.

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

The race to sequence the human genome was also billed as a race to end disease. So what happened? Watch the full video here: ...

Ask scientists what gene editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they'd probably describe a system that's now close to realization in the labs of Samuel Sternberg at Columbia ...

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

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

Researchers have identified a never-before-seen mechanism that enables HIV-1 to evade the body's natural defenses and use it to support its survival and replication. The 'loophole' is a biological ...

In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy by a team at Children's Hospital of ...

They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...