Across social media and city sidewalks, certain dog breeds have become icons of modern pet ownership. French Bulldogs, ...

CGT is rapidly transforming the landscape of modern medicine, driving breakthroughs from laboratory research into real-world clinical applications. From genome editing to in vivo and ex vivo cell ...

He died on Nov 6 in East Northport on New York's Long Island. Watson had been transferred to a hospice this week from a hospital where he had been treated for an infection ...

James Watson’s work helped bring genetics to the forefront of scientific research, but controversial remarks on race clouded ...

An international team led by Monash University researchers has uncovered the genetic code governing the way genetic mutations affect mRNA and result in disease. This breakthrough, detailed in a new ...

Have you ever noticed that most solid orange cats are male, and the multicolored Calicos and Torties are nearly always female? For over a century, this common observation puzzled scientists. Now, ...

Growth charts for children with rare genetic disorders—giving health care professionals and families clearer guidance on how a child is developing—have been created by an international team, led by ...

URBANA, Ill. – 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 ...

Most organisms on Earth have the same basic genetic code, but it comes with some flaws. Scientists sought to work out those errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s ...

Scientists have created Syn57, a completely synthetic bacterium with a genetic code unlike anything in nature. Unlike all known life, which uses 64 codons to build proteins, Syn57 only uses 57 — ...

We’ve heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. Scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology say they’ve engineered a bacteria whose genetic code is more efficient than ...

Chart on causes of genetic changes that lead to cancer2 From heredity to environmental influences, numerous elements can trigger genetic changes within the human body. Genetic testing plays a vital ...