In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...

With choice comes challenges. Choosing embryos with “better” traits carries echoes of a dark past and leaves us facing tough ...

A little girl from Malta is battling a rare genetic disorder that was only discovered 20 years ago. Rian McCann started having twitching movements when she was eight months old.

Functional genomics, which is seeing how genetic variants behave in biological systems through genetic testing, is offering new hope for African cancer patients.

The Earth BioGenome Project is racing to sequence the DNA of life, building a global genome library to protect biodiversity.

The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not without risk. When this type of “genetic surgery” is performed on DNA, for ...

It’s becoming affordable too, with basic tests available for as low as Rs 5,000-Rs 6,000 and comprehensive genomic sequencing costing around Rs 12,000 to Rs 50,000, though prices vary significantly ...

New Zealand is planning to eradicate millions of invasive animals that prey on the country's rare birds. The goal may not be ...

Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies ...

A Texas-based company, Colossal Biosciences, announced Wednesday that it is making strides toward bringing the dodo bird back ...

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...