A human gene found in a poxvirus is displaying a behavior geneticists have never seen before. Not only is it the first time ...

Spatial transcriptomics can reveal where thousands of genes are active across a tissue, creating molecular maps at single-cell resolution. But comparing two such maps is difficult: thin slices of ...

Aurochs, the ancient ancestors of modern cattle, once roamed large parts of Europe, Asia and northern Africa. New research by ...

One in eight women will receive a breast cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. But the journey isn’t the same for everyone. When it comes to a diagnosis or a treatment ...

Embryonic stem cells are famous for their potential, but they are equally remarkable for their restlessness. In a culture dish of seemingly identical mouse embryonic stem cells, the levels of key ...

Film Director Simon Morgan of Lindisfarne Productions, his associate Kelsey van Moorsel, Gene’s wife Christine Zwozdesky, ...

A new study of 450 colorectal cancer patients has delivered some of the clearest evidence yet that mutations in two DNA proofreading genes, POLE and POLD1, can identify which patients are most likely ...

Aspirin may affect dementia risk differently depending on a person’s genetic profile, but researchers caution that it can ...

Gene editing offers farmers new tools to fight disease, improve livestock health and support sustainable food production.

Scientists have identified thousands of genetic differences that change a person's risk of disease, but working out how they ...

The practice of editing the genes of embryos remains highly controversial and risky, but Origin Genomics founder Cathy Tie argues its a “moral imperative” to address hereditary diseases. When the ...

Experts at the company don't know what the newfound system does, so its potential utility in biology—if any—remains unclear.