Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

“By accelerating the production and sharing of trustworthy data, as we are doing at MassCPR, we can empower the public with ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

PERT edits the genome to permanently express a suppressor tRNA, so that cells affected by nonsense mutations can produce functional protein.

Presenting this year's trove of food-system books: memoirs, investigations, scientific works, cookbooks, and much more.

Thar she blows! Scientists say moisture from the endangered right whales blowholes yields important health info that could help save species.

Researchers say in future it may be possible to grow personalized organoids from patient’s own tissue, to test potential treatments in advance.

Farmers traditionally need to sterilize corn by removing male tassels of the plant to prevent self-pollination, but RHS1 ...

Now, a new study reveals that this pivotal step in human development is guided by a precise interplay between chemical signals and physical forces. Published in Cell Stem Cell, the paper introduces a ...