When two defective gene variants combine, normal protein function can sometimes be restored.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) have overturned a long-held belief in genetics: that inheriting two ...

Soybean farmers around the world face a persistent and costly enemy hidden beneath the soil: soybean cyst nematode (SCN), a ...

By studying genetic data from nearly 140,000 IVF embryos, scientists have with unprecedented detail revealed why fewer than ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists at Pacific ...

A recent study of a million people with 14 psychiatric disorders showed these disorders fell into five genetic clusters.

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one pesticide that could cause ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

New insights into a sophisticated process that protects sperm cells has revealed a mechanism, similar to an immune system, thwarts genetic chaos during the earliest stages of their development.

Aurora Therapeutics' first target is the rare inherited disease phenylketonuria, also known as PKU. Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013 ...

Switzerland (Confoederatio Helvetica, CH) is a federation of 23 sovereign cantons (states) with a highly developed infrastructure. It is also highly developed economically and has a 100% literacy rate ...