His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, ...

(Edsel Querini/iStock/Getty Images) For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people deathly ill. There, naturally ...

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the future of gene editing.

Women of Kenya’s Turkana community often walk miles each day in scorching heat to collect water for their animals and personal consumption. Credit: Julien Ayroles/UC Berkeley. F ...

Scientists discover a genetic adaptation in Kenya’s Turkana people that helps them survive drinking much less water without ...

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Weizmann Institute study finds genetics may account for about 50 percent of human lifespan, more than double previous estimates.

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The findings further hint that space rocks may have brought the building blocks of RNA and DNA to Earth long ago ...

Christine Dunham is a leading expert on the ribosome—an elaborate macro-molecular machine that operates like a factory within ...

Scientists have uncovered a powerful genetic switch that helps some of the body’s most important immune cells grow up properly and keep our organs healthy. The switch, called MafB, guides immature ...

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...