I sent my cats’ saliva to the lab to get health and genetic insights sent to my inbox—with very different results.

LCMC Health’s Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New Orleans became Louisiana’s first to use curative gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease.

Two new federally funded studies offer detailed views of proteins repairing broken DNA inside tightly packed chromatin, and of the molecular toolkit they assemble at a break, with potential implicatio ...

Happy Face Killer Keith Hunter Jesperson’s final victim has been identified as Lydia Jane Wade McWhorter, nearly 34 years after the 26-year-old’s body was found along a California highway. In 2024, ...

During cell division, a safety mechanism called the NoCut checkpoint helps delay the final stages of division when DNA bridges are present. The researchers found that this delay allows ESCRT-III ...

Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. Researchers have created what they say may count as the first synthetic cell, and have started a public benefit corporation ...

Electrical signaling in biology is ionic. Safe modulation needs interfaces that couple electrons to ions at soft membranes without injury. We present DNA-FOCUS, a membrane-conformal, DNA-programmed ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how cells behave when division goes wrong. Sometimes a cell successfully copies its DNA but fails to split into two, leaving it with double the genetic ...

Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that large pieces of DNA can transfer directly between human cells, and the DNA can persist and ...

A new kind of CRISPR that destroys cells rather than gene editing them has shown potential for killing sick cells while leaving healthy cells untouched. CRISPR-mediated gene editing technology has ...