"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 ...

GoDaddy Inc.  Chief Financial Officer Mark McCaffrey will present at the 53rd Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference in Boston, Massachusetts on Tuesday, May 13, ...

His work could lead to a broader understanding of how—and why—the human genome takes on such vastly different shapes. In 2009, Zhang and his mentor, renowned chemist Peter Wolynes, used a ...

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.

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

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 ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but ...

His work could lead to a broader understanding of how—and why—the human genome takes on such vastly different shapes. In 2009 ...