In 2018, Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui engaged in gene-hacking experiments using CRISPR technology. He used it to edit the ...

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

Cohesin is a protein that forms a ring-shaped complex which wraps and alters the DNA molecule shape. It moves through the DNA ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have addressed a longstanding challenge in CRISPR ...

A protein called PriC allows DNA replication to proceed in Escherichia coli when the complex that usually initiates this process is compromised.

The personalized CRISPR treatment could be the future of gene therapy, but hurdles remain before everyone has access.

Readers respond to an article about gene editing and object to cuts in research funding. Also: The Covid vaccine; Senator ...

In 2012, scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier replicated this mechanism found in microbes to develop a ...

Researchers have used a personalised base-editing gene therapy to successfully treat an infant with carbamoyl-phosphate ...

The DNA is basically a book of recipes. Each recipe tells the cells in our bodies how to make specific proteins by combining ...

The cause of Huntington’s disease was discovered over three decades ago – a “genetic stutter” mutation involves repeats of three letters of the DNA, cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG), in a ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity ... are strict rules about which nucleobase can pair with which. Adenine and guanine are double-ring molecules called purines, but cytosine, thymine and ...