Gene therapy represents one of medicine’s most ambitious attempts to treat disease at its root cause by altering the genetic code itself. The approach works by recovering the functions of critical ...

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New study reveals how fruit fly gene Zelda controls proper ending of tissue regeneration. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Regeneration ...

Most genes are ancient and shared across species. But a small subset of genes are relative newcomers, spontaneously emerging from stretches of DNA that once encoded nothing at all. Subscribe to our ...

A schematic showing the cytosine base editing intermediate and the various outcomes that can occur when the UNG protein is active. You may have seen it in the news recently: a baby in Pennsylvania ...

This post is a review of The Social Genome: The New Science Of Nature and Nurture. By Dalton Conley. W.W. Norton & Company. 292 pp. $29.99. A breakthrough in socio-genomics, the polygenic index (PGI) ...

The brain is a special organ, and immune cells there called microglia work to repair damage and maintain the health of neural networks. About ten percent of brain cells are estimated to be microglia, ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment opportunity for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. The discovery, ...

Scientists finally have figured out how the key gene tied to obesity makes people fat -- a major discovery that could open the door to a new approach to the problem beyond diet and exercise. The work ...

Regeneration sounds like a superpower. It is the ability to regrow lost tissues, organs, or limbs. Some creatures, like axolotls or starfish, do this effortlessly. Their bodies replace what was ...