It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain ...

Scientists at UC Davis discovered a small genetic difference that could explain why humans are more prone to certain cancers ...

Rett syndrome is a devastating rare genetic childhood disorder primarily affecting girls. Merely 1 out of 10,000 girls are ...

Insulin-producing human pancreas cells can be manufactured with 3D printers, researchers reported at the International Transplant Congress underway in London.

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

An international research team led by the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) has discovered a new strategy used by ...

A new gene therapy trial safely restores hearing in deaf children and adults, offering hope for those with DFNB9 deafness ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

A hidden gene holds the key to a mysterious nutrient vital to life. The discovery reshapes what we know about diet, disease, ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n’ mix ...