Doudna and Charpentier won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 technique, a method of ...

The global birthrate has been in significant decline for decades. In the U.S., couples are deciding to have children later in ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz’s Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has ...

A tiny protein at the center of Parkinson’s disease also plays a surprising role in melanoma, a dangerous skin cancer. New research reveals that alpha-synuclein, which helps protect brain cells from ...

This exponential population growth is accompanied by climate change, bringing challenges such as floods, droughts, pests, ...

The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks. Cells go to great lengths to maintain the ...

Investigators from Mass General Brigham and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have developed STITCHR, a new gene editing ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many ...

Mitochondrial diseases, arising from mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), are a diverse group of disorders that lead to ...