The field of genetics is advancing through rapid improvements in genomic assays, analysis methods, functional validation, and clinical and agricultural ...

The global population and climate change demand sustainable, nutritionally-rich food systems. This research topic focuses on functional foods and ...

For millennia, evolution has intrigued many great thinkers, prompting questions about how new traits emerge as species adapt over time. Then, attention shifted to natural selection and the inheritance ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a powerful new AI tool called Splam that can identify where splicing occurs in genes—an advance that could help scientists analyze genetic data with greater ...

What do your genes have to do with growing old? Quite a lot. But is it due to the actual DNA, or the way those genes are expressed? KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge has more on new research that ...

Researchers developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the liver, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for about 700 genetic ...

The story seems to get stranger the further scientists delve into the origins of life. For many years, scientists thought they had discovered a microscopic ...