Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.

A new university spinout company is hoping to use synthetic biology to transform gene therapy manufacture. SynGenSys, from the University of Sheffield, plans to tap into engineering design principles ...

A research team from the Medical University of Vienna and the Medical University of Graz has discovered a previously unknown ...

More than 20 years after people got a peek at the first draft of the human genome, our genetic instruction book, researchers have unlocked the next level: the human pangenome. The more complete ...

Unusual preservative in specimen jars proved to be a sweet solution for studying changes in genetic diversity among fish ...

Researchers have identified a new genetic cause of hereditary optic atrophy—a condition that leads to gradual vision loss—by discovering a previously unknown mutation in the PPIB gene. T ...

Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis—a species endemic to the Canary Islands—has reduced the size of its ...