For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

Thermophiles thrive in hydrothermal features where scalding temperatures would burn other life. What can we learn from the ...

In a development that could help protect one of the world's most beloved agricultural commodities, a research team at Penn ...

Researchers are now exploring how different types of repetitive DNA create genome instability and structurally variant chromosomes.

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb.