The Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District is expanding a program to attack the disease-carrying pests with a new tool.

New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not ...

Research has shed intriguing new light on the genetics underlying the diverse plant organ shapes seen in agriculture and ...

As climate change brings longer droughts, more frequent heat waves and increasingly unpredictable growing conditions to ...

Scribe Therapeutics is the latest biotech to prepare a public listing, as the company looks to propel its lipid-lowering medicines through clinical trials. While the Bay Area biotech has yet to set ...

A study in zebrafish shows that neuronal microexons regulate brain activity by modulating cAMP signaling. Loss of these ...

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

Genetic clues may help explain why sloths live at such a low gear. In a new study, researchers linked the animals' extremely ...