In a study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers found that the key to the whales’ lifespans is a ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human genome—comprising about 17% of the genome. It is commonly called a "jumping gene" or ...

In a breakthrough that redefines both speed and clinical potential, a new world record for the fastest human whole genome ...

The human brain is like a hard drive from which new information related to knowledge and its development throughout a ...

A recent breakthrough has given genetic scientists at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) better insight into the genetics of oats, a crop that has been giving them trouble for a while. The effort ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

From The Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park, these are the most exhilarating novels written by the master of the ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

Boston researchers sequenced a full human genome in record time, under four hours. The advance could speed life-saving diagnoses for newborns in intensive care. Boston Children’s Hospital, in ...

White oak (Quercus alba) is important economically, ecologically, and culturally. However, the species currently faces a ...

The X-Men universe has some of the most complex and morally layered villains in all of Marvel comics, many of whom represent ...

This allowed, for example, building human societies that can overcome unbelievable challenges like inventing spaceflight and AI. And when we look closely, the rules of AI mirror the computational ...