At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Eli Lilly plans to expand its hearing loss therapy pipeline by collaborating with Seamless Therapeutics to apply the company’s next-generation gene-editing approach, based on programmable recombinases ...

Although DNA is tightly packed and protected within the cell nucleus, it is constantly threatened by damage from normal ...

Genetic analyses of koala pedigrees help to suss out virus-induced genome changes that affect cancer risk and reproductive ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

Our genome isn’t as peaceful as it looks—some DNA elements are constantly trying to disrupt it. Scientists studying fruit ...

Ovarian cancer standard of care has not advanced in over 30 years, but a new DNA-based immunotherapy could be a gamechanger, ...