Ethan Hawke’s 1997 sci-fi film Gattaca turns 28 today, and its story about genetics and destiny feels more relevant than ever ...

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

A new, expanded edition of Maia Kobabe's graphic memoir 'Gender Queer' with commentary by queer and trans artists and ...

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

Researchers have developed an improved method of gene editing that is precise, more efficient than other similar methods and ...

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...

The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients – revving up their immune ...

Researchers at the University of Brighton have uncovered the molecular secrets behind the caterpillar’s astonishing transformation into a butterfly – offering new hope for conservation and human ...

Riding in a helicopter, Fabiano Melo, with the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, searched for the elusive northern ...

Prakash Kumar’s multifaceted book recounts the story of India’s green revolution—or how the country became self-sufficient in food grain production by the 1970s.

Twenty-month-old Vida Rodriguez is the reason her 7-year-old sister, Alessia, is playing at home — instead of lying in a ...