The world’s largest network of environmental groups approved the exploration of genetic engineering tools to aid the ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

Some genetic disorders-such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease-involve many mutations in a person's genome, often with enough variation that even two individuals who share the same ...