Unlike computer code that sits on a device and does what it's told, lab-engineered genes can multiply on their own. While ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Could a viral infection you experience today cause mental health disorders for generations of your descendants? Absolutely.

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...

Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated with illnesses such as sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis. The most ...

Nadine and David Lipworth have devoted their lives to finding treatment that will restore the daughter they knew.

The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life’s molecular ingredients formed in space before ...

A new method for recognizing and targeting DNA that dramatically expands the range of genetic sequences scientists can identify has been developed by experts at the University of Portsmouth. Published ...

Breakthrough Prize winner Thein Swee Lay’s research has helped turn sickle cell disease and beta-thalassaemia into treatable ...

The Code as Witness written by Steven C. Quay is part scientific investigation, part policy strategy, and part warning about ...

Few areas of medicine generate as much fascination, hope, hype, and confusion as genetics. Just over two decades ago, ...

Professor Jason Chin, founder and Chief Scientific Office of Cambridge-based Constructive Bio, has won the 2026 Heinrich ...