He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening for ...

As we age, we don't recover from injury or illness like we did when we were young. But new research from UCSF has found gene ...

We know the genes, but not their functions—to resolve this long-standing bottleneck in microbial research, a joint research ...

Molecular mechanism uncovered in mice by UC Santa Cruz researchers reveals how a father’s diet, stress, and other ...

Precision and timing of gene expression is essential for normal biological functions and, when disrupted, can lead to many ...

Restricted access to genome-editing technologies poses serious challenges for countries like India that urgently need such ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular senescence—a state where cells stop dividing but remain metabolically active.

Adolescence is a time of heightened emotion. Stress, excitement, anxiety, frustration, and joy flow through classrooms every day. But how do these emotions affect how students learn and connect with ...

Origin-recognition complex, or ORC, plays an unexpectedly broad role in the regulation of human cell gene expression, according to a study in the journal Cell Reports. This is the first detailed study ...

President Trump’s AI Action Plan released on July 23 again demonstrates the US government will both avoid onerous AI regulation and try to knock out disruptive US state laws. Though Congress failed in ...