The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

Around one million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, each year. To replicate and spread the infection, the virus must smuggle its genetic material into the ...

What is Single-Cell Sequencing? Single-cell sequencing is a revolutionary technology that allows researchers to analyze the genetic material of individual cells, providing unprecedented insights into ...

New research outlines the protein MPS1 as a key player in controlling division in unfertilized egg cells, potentially having ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz’s Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has yielded a new discovery: The proper transfer of genetic materials depends on ...

"The average genome size of Inocle is 350 kilobase pairs, a measure of length for genetic sequences, so it is one of the ...

In a new study, University of California, Irvine chemical and biomolecular engineering researchers report the creation of ...

Influenza A is one of two influenza viruses that fuel costly annual flu seasons and is a near constant threat to humans and many other animals. It's also responsible for occasional pandemics that, ...

Research reveals new non-coding genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease functioning in microglia -- brain cells already implicated in the progression of this often-fatal neurodegenerative ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz's Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has yielded a new discovery: The proper transfer of genetic materials depends on ...