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All living things on Earth are built from proteins created from the same 20 chemical units, called amino acids. Now, ...

Up until a few months ago, Brazil was all set to create the country’s first herd of genetically dehorned dairy ...

[August 8] brings yet another devastating report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this time outlining how humanity’s ...

The world’s largest public health authority has weighed in with the most authoritative statement yet on the use of Crispr ...

When Mowgli Holmes and his childhood friend Nishan Karassik founded Phylos Bioscience in 2014 they had one major goal: to ...

[T]he Moonshot initiative is promoting new ways to study cancer, particularly in the promising area of immunotherapy. And it specifically ...

Scientists know almost nothing about how Bourbon virus behaves or how it got here or where it will show up ...

Most vaccines prepare our body’s immune system to fight off so-called exogenous disease, such as measles or flu, caused by ...

Welcome to a murky new front in the war to bring psychedelics out of the shadows and into both legal ...

In 2013, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down patents on two human genes—BRCA1 and BRCA2—associated with breast and ovarian cancers ...

[There’s a] growing world of boutique egg-freezing operations Instagrammable enough for their majority-millennial clientele. Take Trellis, a “women’s fertility studio,” ...

Olfaction remains a stubborn biological enigma. Scientists are still piecing together the basics of how we sense all those volatile ...

In October 2017, Graham Hatfull received an urgent email from across the pond. A microbiologist colleague ... was desperately looking ...

The UK Biobank is the single largest public genetic repository in the world... . But when David Hill, a statistical ...

Cancer cells develop resistance to the powerful chemicals deployed to destroy them. Even if cancer therapies kill most of the ...

[P]renatal whole-genome sequencing is [not] commercially available yet (though it’s definitely coming). But what is available is something called noninvasive ...

The scientist who entered [Room 3C16] saw 12 mysterious cardboard boxes on a crowded shelf in the far left corner ...

Crispr works in almost every animal that scientists have tried, from silkworms to monkeys, and in just about every cell ...

For nearly 60 years, hormonal contraceptives have freed women from their own biology. ... But no form of hormonal birth control—pill, patch, ...

Of all the big, world-remaking bets on the genome-editing tool known as Crispr, perhaps none is more tantalizing than its ...

Like a couple of heavyweight boxers who just keep slugging it out, the University of California Berkeley (UCB) and the ...

So far this year, there have been six known cases of polio infection, in Afghanistan and Pakistan—two of the three countries left ...

[A] 32-year-old Greek woman, who’d previously undergone two operations for endometriosis and four unsuccessful cycles of IVF, once again returned ...

Here’s everything you need to know about the complex and sometimes controversial technology driving the gene-editing revolution. CRISPR evolved as ...

The latest step toward 3D-printed replacements of failed human parts comes from a team at UC San Diego. It has ...

In April [2018], a citizen scientist named Barbara Rae-Venter used a little-known genealogy website called GEDMatch to help investigators find a man ...

In June 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the 11th edition of its International Classification of Diseases. It contained an ...

How do you handle the data of a scientist who violates all the norms of his field? … On the one hand, you ...