Enhancers are pieces of DNA that act like switches, regulating when genes are turned on and off and how strongly they are ...

Arlington police have charged Mayra Velasquez with capital murder in the 2012 stabbing of Irasema Chavez, following a ...

The government had sought permission under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 15 to preserve the testimony of Oluwakemi ...

Scientists expected SuperAgers might simply inherit fewer Alzheimer’s-related risks, but their genes looked much like those ...

A lot of effort has gone into finding ways to minimize or eliminate off-target edits. In a recent issue of Nature, ...

The Harvard chip is an early-stage demonstration rather than an industrial replacement for current DNA synthesis platforms.

The longevity-linked APOE2 gene appears to protect brain cells by reducing DNA damage and helping neurons recover from stress. The finding could open a new path toward treatments that mimic APOE2’s ...

Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 100 babies born each year. One of the many causes for this disorder is having only one functional copy of the ...

Our DNA is made of millions of combinations of the genomes that create the human body. Even the smallest changes in these sequences, or in how they act, can change the functioning of the whole body ...

State and county leaders began work on the $1.5 million facility after it secured funding in 2022. At the time, they said the ...

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new way to add large pieces of ...

Harvard scientists have built a silicon chip that writes DNA using electricity and water, pointing toward a cleaner future ...