New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...

Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology—Agrobacterium tumefaciens—to transfer its DNA ...

MIT researchers have dramatically lowered the error rate of prime editing, a technique with promise for treating numerous ...

New research helps explain why disease-associated genetic variants can lead to variable clinical outcomes, influenced both by the patterns of secondary variants, or genetic background, and by how ...

Alternative splicing exhibits lineage-specific variability, with mammals and birds reaching the highest levels despite conserved intron-rich architectures, while unicellular eukaryotes and prokaryotes ...

Many butterflies develop wing patterns that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators. While growing complex ...

Faulty versions of the LMNA gene can cause a wide range of health problems, including heart muscle disease (dilated ...

Despite setbacks and funding cuts — and a quieting of the hype blaring its arrival — multiple CRISPR-based trials are ...

Xenobiology explores alternative forms of life beyond Earth, with potential applications in medicine and environmental ...

Maria Branyas Morera was the oldest person on the planet when she died in 2024 and it's been suggested that one food may have ...

Your DNA contains millions of genetic variants that interact with each other in ways that affect whether diseases such as schizophrenia and heart disease develop, and with what severity.