In 1996 this method enabled molecular biologist Stephen O’Brien and his colleagues to discover a rare genetic mutation that protects against the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

Scientists at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have developed mouse models that survive premature death and enable pre-clinical ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to numerous ethical concerns. While the ...