White oak (Quercus alba) is important economically, ecologically, and culturally. However, the species currently faces a ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

That rogue scientist who created HIV-resistant designer babies is apparently gearing up for more human gene-editing research. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, He Jiankui said he wants to ...

The field of genetics has evolved rapidly in recent years, however early understanding of inheritance patterns began much ...

THE Ministry of State Security warned that foreign intelligence agencies are stepping up efforts to "illegally obtain" genetic data and seed resources from the country's grain sector, calling the ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s helical structure. By Delthia Ricks Franklin W. Stahl, a molecular biologist ...