Genetic modification of viruses has long been used as a strategy to treat and prevent different types of diseases. Specifically, it consists of exploiting certain characteristics of viruses that make ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored incorrectly? Jesse Dixon, MD, Ph.D., has spent years studying the way this ...

The researchers studied the population genetics of Impatiens capensis (jewelweed), a common plant native to North America, drawing samples from small, isolated patches surrounded by agriculture and ...

A novel CRISPR-based technology can spread within bacterial populations to eliminate antibiotic resistance.

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

Back in early 2023, the dodo's genome was sequenced from a DNA sample. Now the company trying to resurrect the long-extinct flightless bird is working with Mauritian conservationists to restore ...

A University of Calgary-led international research team has identified a genetic factor that may explain why people respond so differently to opioid pain medications, and why some individuals face ...

Catherine O'Hara passed away at the age of 71. The Home Alone and Schitt's Creek actor will always be remembered for her charismatic presence on screen.She had once dropped a bit about her health: she ...

Superagers -- adults 80 and older with the memory capacity of much younger people -- had a higher frequency of gene variants that protected against Alzheimer's disease and a lower frequency of genes ...