When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

Every new life begins after a genetic shuffle. When organisms make eggs or sperm, maternal and paternal chromosomes pair up ...

A report said DNA collected at checkpoints from about 2,000 Americans, mostly during the Biden administration, was sent to an ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer. This allows bacteria to rapidly evolve new traits, such as antibiotic ...