With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...

The ban, which has been in place since March 4 following President Trump's doubling of tariffs on China, is expected to be ...

People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned ...

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

In a first for adults in Singapore, scientists are conducting gene editing trials on heart patients to correct defects at ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

Genetically modified organisms, also known as GMOs, have been a hot topic of conversation among researchers, producers, ...

Differences between men and women in intelligence and behaviour have been proposed and disputed for decades. Now, a growing ...