Anne Wojcicki, founder and former CEO of 23andMe, will helm the company again after her nonprofit's purchase was approved.

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to numerous ethical concerns. While the ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

That means Wojcicki’s nonprofit TTAM Research Institute will purchase “substantially all” of San Francisco-based 23andMe’s ...

New cutting-edge software developed in Melbourne can help uncover how the most common heart tumor in children forms and ...

Genome editing technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 have transformed biology, medicine, and agriculture, but concerns remain about ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that ...

A bankruptcy court this week approved the $305 million sale of genetics testing firm 23andMe to a nonprofit organization led ...