Latest genetics Stories
Help Scientists Solve Mysteries Of The Brain By Watching Worms Lay Eggs
What’s Next For Gene Patenting?
U.S. Supreme Court Rules On Gene Patents
Scientists Find One Gene Responsible For All White Tigers
Scientists Create Hybrid, Air-Transmissible Bird Flu Strains
Should Companies Be Able To Patent Genes?
Despite Widely Varied Appearances, Giant Squid Worldwide Are Only One “Very Weird” Species
New Gene Therapy Braces T Cells Against HIV
How Genetics Is Perfecting The Christmas Tree
FYI: What Makes Hair Curly?
Are People Getting Dumber? One Geneticist Thinks So
The West’s First Gene Therapy Goes On Sale Mid-2013
Where will the next pandemic come from?
After Pregnancy, Many Women Have Bits Of Male DNA In Their Brains
One Gene Lays The Blueprint for A Cheetah’s Spots And A Tabby Cat’s Stripes
Viral Gene Therapy Gives Non-Smelling Mice the Ability to Smell
Light-Activated Muscle Could Make Robots Move Like Real Creatures
Strong Hands and Voice Pitch Really Are Signs of Fertility
Using DNA to Track the Spread of Bedbugs
At Last, a Breed of Fruit Flies That Can Count Up to Four
Splicing a 500-Million-Year-Old Gene Into Modern Bacteria
Video: New Finger-Tap Power Generator Uses Viruses to Make Electricity
Genetic Bar Code Search Can Use RNA to Pick Out Individuals From Huge Gene Pools
High Court Rejects Patents on Genes, Sending Breast Cancer Gene Case Back to Square One
DNA Sequencer Plugs Right Into Your USB Port, Analyzes Your Genome
Machine Can Tell If Plants’ Genes Are Modified By Watching Them Grow
Bacteria Can Quickly Swap Genes With Each Other Through A Global Network
Researchers Turn Cloned Human Embryo into Working Stem Cell Line
Suntory Creates Mythical Blue (Or, Um, Lavender-ish) Rose
Scientists Who Cloned Dolly the Sheep Plan to Clone Endangered Scottish Wildcats Using Eggs From Spayed Pets
UK Researchers Urge Rules Governing Creation and Use of Human-Animal Hybrids
New Genome Editing Method Helps Scientists Rewrite Whole Sections of the Code of Life
USDA Won’t Regulate Genetically Modified Grass, Sparking Superweed Worries
Video: How to Build a Dinosaur from a Chicken
Government Says Biotech Companies Can Be Their Own Safety Testers
“How It Works” Throughout History, In Pictures
Biostorage Scheme Turns E. Coli Bacteria into Hard Drives
For the First Time, DNA Sequencing Technology Saves A Child’s Life
Japanese Create A Mutant Mouse That Tweets Like a Bird
Vatican Praises Genetically Modified Crops, While U.S. Judge Orders Their Destruction
For The First Time, Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Are Released Into The Wild
How Modified Worms and Goats Can Mass-Produce Nature’s Toughest Fiber
In Sweet Breakthrough, Scientists Led By Makers of M&Ms Sequence the Chocolate Genome
Bacteria Could Be Engineered to Produce Natural Bio-Sunscreen
Zombie DNA Long Thought Dormant Can Rise to Cause Health Problems
How Pharmaceutical Companies Turn Genetically Modified Livestock Into Drug Factories
Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Are 100 Percent Resistant to Malaria Parasite
Has The “Gay Gene” Been Found in Female Mice?
Faulty Gene-Scanning Chip Calls Results of Major Lifespan Study Into Question
New Genetic Model Accurately Predicts Who’s Likely to Live to 100
Venter Institute’s Synthetic Cell Genome Contains Hidden Messages
Researchers Create the World’s First Fully Synthetic, Self-Replicating Living Cell
UC Berkeley Requesting DNA Samples from Incoming Students
Genetically Engineered Cells Will Sweat Ethanol and Diesel Fuel in Texas Pilot Plant
Researchers Find First Evidence of DNA Swapping Between Insects and Mammals
U.K. Launches a Largest-Ever Effort to Turn Genetic Info Into Better Medical Treatments
This Chip Can Sift Martian Soil For Alien DNA
According to Genomic Pioneers, the Future of Genetics is the Future of Computing
Pfizer Employee Claims Company Fired Her After Infection From An Engineered Virus
Humans Could Regenerate Tissue Like Newts By Switching Off a Single Gene
First-Ever Full Sequencing of Unhealthy Genomes Illuminates Disease Roots
Texas Secretly Gave The Blood of 800 Newborns to DNA Database
For Test-Tube Babies, Synthetic Environment Could Cause Lasting Genetic Damage
Genetically Engineered Pig Lung Successfully Oxygenates Human Blood, Paving the Way For Transplants