An international group of gene editing leaders has put out a call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome editing (HHGE), ...

Ever since a few enterprising bed bugs hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal walking out of a cave 60,000 ...

This week a group of researchers, bioethicists, publishers and theologians are discussing the merits of human heritable ...

Researchers identified a novel genotype (D1.1) of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 spreading among wild birds, poultry, ...

Earlier gatherings focused on gaining public acceptance for what scientists want to do with CRISPR. This meeting flipped that ...

In a study published in Nature today "Sequence diversity lost in early pregnancy," scientists from deCODE genetics, a ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

David Liu and Richard Merkin of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Columbia professor Sam Sternberg, have ...

The Therapeutic BCG Vaccine Market offers growth opportunities through expanding applications beyond TB prevention, including bladder cancer and autoimmune diseases. Advances in biotechnology, ...

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

The mitochondrial genome is the full genetic complement of a mitochondrion. Mitochondrial DNA is only a small portion of the total DNA of a eukaryotic cell and in most species is solely inherited ...

Campylobacter and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) reports went up in Malta in 2024, according to the latest figures. Data comes from an annual report ...