To make horses rideable during domestication, people may have inadvertently targeted a mutation in horses to strengthen their backs and their balance.

In the Darwinian struggle of scientific ideas, the gene is surely among the select. It has become the foundation of medicine and the basis of vigorous biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries ...

A film from executive producer Ken Burns delivers an unfiltered history of genetics, showing how the science has helped and hurt people.

A gene is a how-to book for making one product—a protein. Proteins perform most life functions, and make up almost all cellular structures. Genes control everything from hair color to blood ...

A new era in genetic engineering Breakthroughs in gene editing and expression control with mvGPT Date: January 8, 2025 Source: University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science ...

Even scientists define ‘a gene’ in different ways, so it comes as little surprise that the media also have various ways of framing the concept of a gene, according to a new study.

The gene is “one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science,” argues Siddhartha Mukherjee in The Gene: An Intimate History. Since its discovery by Gregor Mendel, an ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a gene responsible for the biological immortality of the Turritopsis dohrnii, commonly known as the “immortal jellyfish.” This unique species ...

Gene drives change the way that certain genes (and therefore traits) are inherited, or passed down through generations. Using CRISPR gene editing technology, the gene drives have the ability to cut ...

Previously, research on controlling gene networks has been carried out based on a single stimulus-response of cells. More recently, studies have been proposed to precisely analyze complex gene ...

The interaction between a common gene variant and gut microbes may trigger chronic inflammation in ulcerative colitis, new research suggests.

New genetic techniques are shedding light on a mysterious part of our family tree—ancient human relatives called the Denisovans that emerged during the Pleistocene epoch, approximately 370,000 years ...