Hundreds of millions of years ago, prehistoric seas and rivers were full of strange fish with armor, fins, lungs, slime, and ...

Jellyfish have repeatedly riddled the world of marine biology with its toughest mysteries. The immortal jellyfish might be ...

Long-distance gene control first emerged around 650 to 700 million years ago, significantly earlier than scientists had ...

Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The result heralded a new age of discovery for genetics ...

Two independent research teams have unveiled near-complete reference genomes of the central bearded dragon, a reptile with the rare ability to change sex depending on both chromosomes and nest ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have shown that giant viruses long thought to exist only as fleeting, free-living particles that can embed themselves permanently in the ...

The company behind the dire wolf comeback hopes to restore Africa's bluebuck, once hunted to extinction by colonialists.

Advances in genome editing have transformed our capacity to interrogate and engineer biological systems across both plant and animal kingdoms. Early platforms based on zinc-finger nucleases and ...

Cancer cell DNA doubling — when cells accidentally duplicate all chromosomes without dividing — now has a new risk factor: ...

A frozen cell line from a black-footed ferret that died in 1988 is helping scientists add genetic diversity to one of America ...

Scientists have reported it for decades: overpopulation can impair reproduction. Crowded chickens lay fewer eggs. Crowded ...

The development of efficient and safe delivery systems is a cornerstone of gene therapy and genome editing. Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), adeno-associated ...