Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test ...

India has developed BIRSA 101, its first indigenous CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease, using a more precise ...

From the first unzip of the double helix to the final joining of DNA fragments, replication is a carefully coordinated process. Understanding it helps explain how life preserves its genetic code with ...

The federal government’s reclassification of medical marijuana products as Schedule III drugs doesn’t federally legalize marijuana, but it might extend tax breaks to some cannabis businesses. The ...

Obesity can leave lasting marks on immune cells, keeping inflammation active long after weight loss, new research finds.

A child known publicly as Baby KJ was celebrated onstage at the twelfth Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Santa Monica last ...

Childhood maltreatment is associated with accelerated biological aging and a tendency to avoid looking at people’s eyes. New ...

8 min read | April 2026 showed us a toxic HTT fragment is center stage in mouse research, CRISPR is showing promise in mouse ...

AI-guided redesign of protein alphabet in bacteria could unlock new ways to build synthetic organisms.

Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster ...

Scientists have shown that evolution has been using the same genetic "cheat sheet" for over 120 million years, suggesting ...

When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully ...