When even one tiny section of a person’s genetic code becomes mutated or modified, cells can begin to act out of ...

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Genetic factors are thought to play a major role in the development of autism – but for decades what they are has proven elusive. Now scientists are starting to uncover clues.

The move marks a significant step toward integrating advanced technology into national identity verification processes ...

Northeastern University researchers resurrected an extinct plant gene, turning back the evolutionary clock to pave a path ...

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

Imagine a world where the very essence of life—genes, species, and the building blocks of nature—can be claimed, bought, and ...

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

Researchers in Virginia have issued a warning about a virus seldom seen in the US that comes from mice, the same virus that ...

With Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT), molecular genetics enables the correlation between changes in the structure and ...