Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is?

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

In another comparison of a study published in Cell in 2022 and the current Johns Hopkins work, the 2022 study reported fungal ...

In 2024 and 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of pups they called dire wolves. Using edited gray wolf DNA, scientists altered 20 genes to mimic dire wolf traits. But no actual dire wolf ...

Researchers at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation have identified four clinically and biologically distinct subtypes of autism, marking a transformative step in understanding the condition ...

The world of protein engineering just took a giant leap forward. A team in China has developed a method that makes designing better proteins faster, cheaper, and easier.

Gene editing technologies, such as those used in agriculture and de-extinction efforts, can be repurposed to provide what an international team of scientists describes as a breakthrough approach for ...

HIV globally, and that number continues to rise. While therapies exist to reduce the amount of HIV in a patient's body and, ...

Disease-resistant frogs, cane-toad-munching quolls and other gene-edited native animals could be roaming the nation within ...

Scientists in China have developed an experimental “DNA cassette tape” to address the global data storage crisis.

Several studies in vertebrates indicate that T-box proteins are important in regulating a multitude of cellular processes in development and disease across species. The loss of function for T-box ...

A newly discovered "timekeeper" for fighting infections dramatically shapes the body's immune defenses, offering insight as to why antiviral T cell response varies throughout the day, according to UT ...