In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has led to profound changes in their skeletal structure. This experiment, ...

Learn more about the research of Mayo Clinic's Gene Editing and Cellular Engineering Laboratory led by David (Chun-Wei) D.

Amber Salzman, Ph.D., CEO at Epicrispr Biotechnologies, joined the Business of Biotech live in Boston to talk about ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code - a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

A de-extinction company plans to recreate the giant moa bird, but scientists question the ethics and scientific accuracy of ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll ...

UConn Health and Connecticut Children's have made history by dosing the first patient in a clinical trial using gene editing to treat glycogen storage ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

The 12-foot bird roamed the country for 4,000 years until they became extinct about 600 years ago, mainly because of ...

Unlike other large flightless birds which still retain vestigial wings, moa were completely wingless. They took about 10 ...