Genetics company 23andMe is expected to be purchased by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, according to announcements shared by both ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jennifer Lawrence On Playing Mother Struggling With Depression In ‘Die, My Love': "I'm Not An Actor Who Brings The Work Home" ...

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

As part of their commitment to fostering in-depth and international discussion about human genome editing, the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong, the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, and the U.S.