John Timmer

One of the most frequently mentioned issues with GMO foods is a vague concern about bringing genes from distantly related ...

A technique for editing genes while they reside in intact chromosomes has been a real breakthrough. Literally. In 2013, Science ...

The relationship between the US public and genetically modified organisms is a bit ambiguous. That may change thanks to work taking ...

Another week, another ancient human genome. We just recently covered the oldest modern human genome yet described. Now, another paper ...

In Type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system destroys the cells that produce insulin, leaving your body unable to make ...

Another study adds to the growing list of experiements in which epigenetics appears involved in the process of locking memories ...

The following is an edited excerpt. In recent years, researchers in the messy world of biology have been able to ...

The following is an edited excerpt. Thanks to decades of breeding, the modern agricultural tomato has a lot of properties ...

The typical image of a modern biological research lab involves high-tech machinery and table-sized microscopes; at most, there might be ...

Humans engage in a lot of complex behaviors, but many of them are learned. Genetics gives us a nervous system ...

Precisely engineering the genome of human cells remains largely in the realm of science fiction. It's possible, with the right virus, ...

[N]ow, thanks to our ability to sequence genomes, some researchers have provided a new picture of how bats manage to ...

For researchers at the UK's Rothamsted research center, the past few weeks must have felt like a train wreck in ...

The field of study called population genetics has played a critical role in the development of modern biology, helping unite ...