Dressed in a pink pullover, the 17-year-old girl rested her head in her hands, weighing her bleak options from the empty room of an shelter in Poughkeepsie, New York. During a ...

Rivers up and down the north coast of New South Wales have been hammered again, just three years after devastating floods hit ...

Broad Institute researchers have developed a way to edit the genetic sequences at the root of Huntington's disease and ...

A single Neanderthal gene slipped into lab mice triggered unexpected changes in their skeletons. Scientists in Japan uncovered traits echoing long-lost human cousins.

It's hard to find anyone who'll argue that 1995's Judge Dredd- starring Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane and Rob Schneider - is ...

Colossal uses gene editing to bring dire wolves back from extinction, marking a breakthrough in de-extinction science with the birth of Romulus and Remus.

The creator of CRISPR babies is flirting again with infamy, this time through a mysterious alliance with an Internet-savvy ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

In a classic mix up, geneticist Varun Johnson from the Human Genome Project research team accidentally mixed his DNA with the mouse DNA that he was attempting to extract and replicate. The result ...

Vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with aging, a large study shows. But ...