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For too long, the promise of personalized therapies has been tantalizingly close, yet frustratingly out of reach for ...

The rise of gene editing forces regulators to confront a difficult question: How to protect fair play in the age of genomic medicine.

Resistant cells demonstrated global decreases in DNA accessibility with localized opening at resistance-driving loci, ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have harnessed artificial ...

For world pangolin day, learn more about how genetic researchers helped pinpoint a hidden lineage of the critically endangered mammals ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were ...

Me Research Institute today announced the publication of a new study highlighting the positive health actions taken by people who learned of ...

The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) is encouraging farmers to fill out its congenital defect survey this spring if ...

If autoimmune disease runs in your family, you may have been told some version of this: It’s in your genes. But science is revealing a deeper layer of complexity; genetic predisposition influences ...

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...