The pursuit to fulfill this mandate not only brings clarity to our meaning and purpose in this world, but it also creates the ...

A large team of researchers led by Wouter Karthaus, head of the Endocrine Therapy Resistance and Molecular Genetics Lab at ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...

Scientists have identified a microbe capable of interpreting a single piece of genetic code in two completely different ways.

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most ...

Up to 5% of Americans may carry genetic variants associated with cancer risk, according to a cross-sectional analysis.The ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

How to balance patient confidentiality with your ethical and legal duties to inform family of hereditary risks.

U.S. officials are building a case that ongoing measles outbreaks in South Carolina and other states are unrelated to last ...

SEATTLE and NEW YORK – Genetic counselors are now able to bill for more of the time spent on providing services to patients with the adoption earlier this year of a new Current Procedural Terminology ...

Discover how scientists are harnessing the power of CRISPR to precisely edit DNA, revolutionizing medicine and ethics as they rewrite the very code of life. Pixabay, PublicDomainPictures CRISPR ...