Woolly mammoths are a step closer to coming back from extinction after scientists made a key genetic breakthrough. Scientists from Sweden have extracted the oldest RNA ever found from a ...

Schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder that affects how a person feels, thinks, and behaves, affects roughly 1% of the population (approximately 3.5 million people in the U.S.) and is a leading cause ...

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have revealed a previously overlooked layer of genetic variation that ...

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode and mine the DNA of non-flowering seed plants and uncover genes that evolved to ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, Ruth Ley and her colleagues demonstrated that behavior—in this case, how ...

An investigation into the tyrant’s DNA raises science’s toughest ethical questions.

He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.

From plastic-eating plants to AI-guided therapies, iGEM 2025 reveals the innovations defining the future of synthetic biology ...

The Oakland County school is one of 20 schools nationwide performing genetic research through a partnership with Stanford ...

James “Jim” D. Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA at age 25 and went on to spend 21 years as a Harvard biology ...