TUCSON, Ariz. — As the Nancy Guthrie case enters week three, investigators and the public are awaiting potentially pivotal DNA results tied to a glove recovered near the scene. But according to ...

Recombinant DNA Infectious organisms and viruses (like parasites, bacteria, fungi, prions, and viroids) Biologically active agents (like toxins, allergens, and venoms) Human blood and blood products ...

The Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of $5 million to Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan and colleagues in India to expand self-cloning seed technology to crops that are popular in India but not ...

Human cloning could change medicine, family life, and society forever, but it also raises profound ethical questions about identity and individuality. Young voters are turning away from Trump. Here’s ...

A large genetic study shows that many people carry DNA sequences that slowly expand as they get older. Common genetic variants can dramatically alter how fast this expansion happens, sometimes ...

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be sure that the genetic material belongs to the Italian polymath. When you ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the science writer at Cold Spring Harbor ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. James Dewey Watson, Nobel Prize winner and “semi-professional loose cannon,” died Thursday in hospice care after a ...

Two Texas-based biotechnology companies are joining forces on a mission to reverse extinction. Colossal Biosciences Inc., the Dallas-based genetics company that claimed to have brought back the dire ...

The host cell system is a critical determinant of recombinant protein quality and yield, with direct influence on protein folding and post-translational modification factors that shape the ...

Worker ants perform important tasks like gathering food, taking care of eggs and larvae and nest building. However, some species of ants cannot produce workers through reproductive means with their ...