New study finds genetic modifiers control human mutation rates, revealing how populations evolve and risk for genetic ...

The story so far: Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan recently announced that India has become the first country in the world to develop rice varieties using genome editing technology.

You can reach Jason on Signal at JasonMast.05. For the first time, scientists say they have reached into the genome of a severely ill child and rewritten the unique misspelling in his DNA.

The genome is the full genetic complement of an organism, encoded in either DNA or, in many viruses, RNA. It includes both the genes and non-coding sequences. Chromatin hubs, which are formed ...

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing exploits the CRISPR-Cas system to modify a genome in a targeted manner. Guided by RNA, the Cas9 endonuclease breaks DNA at a target sequence. Imprecise repair of the ...

Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal’s remains and began to analyze its genome. Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and ...

Metagenomics is the study of the metagenome—the collective genome of microorganisms from an environmental sample—to provide information on the microbial diversity and ecology of a specific ...

Producers who were raising pigs in the 1980s can clearly remember the first time they encountered the “Mystery Swine Disease” ...

The mitochondrial genome is the full genetic complement of a mitochondrion. Mitochondrial DNA is only a small portion of the total DNA of a eukaryotic cell and in most species is solely inherited ...

Equus How did horses become some of the greatest athletes in the animal kingdom? Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have pinpointed a genetic mutation and evolutionary process that occurred ...