Once a defining tree of eastern forests, the American chestnut was nearly erased by a foreign fungus within a few human ...

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...

Genetic engineering is moving faster than almost any other scientific field. New tools now allow researchers to edit DNA with ...

A new vaccine design uses folded DNA to steer the immune system toward producing the rare immune cells needed to make protective antibodies against HIV.

Gene editing is now reaching the mainstream, ushering in a new era of genetic manipulation. Traditionally, inserting or deleting entire genes, regulating their expression, and altering specific ...

Biologists have engineered adeno-associated viruses that are better at capsid filling, potentially resulting in higher productivity.

Despite the regulatory and funding roadblocks, Murray and fellow researcher Elizabeth Maga continue to work on a line of genetically engineered goats, which carry a human gene that produces elevated ...

Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...