Inside the Destiny laboratory module aboard the International Space Station, NASA flight engineer Zena Cardman recently ...

Beyond traditional monitoring of kidney transplant recipients, donor derived-cell free DNA may permit early identification of graft damage.

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

The new method relies on methyl groups, small chemical tags attached to DNA that regulate whether genes are on or off. This ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have carried out the most detailed mapping to date of the epigenome in the cells ...

Engineered cells are a high-value genetic asset that is key to many fields, including biotechnology, medicine, aging, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Tokyo team built a neutral PEG-DNA complex that boosted gene expression in mouse muscle, avoiding cation-linked inflammation.

Researchers have developed ThermoCas9, a CRISPR enzyme that can distinguish cancer cells from healthy ones by reading DNA methylation patterns. In lab tests, it selectively edited breast cancer cell ...

A new study finds that bacteria can actively block the transfer of beneficial genes to neighboring cells, using specialized ...