From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Rett syndrome is a devastating rare genetic childhood disorder primarily affecting girls. Merely 1 out of 10,000 girls are ...

When it comes to cutting-edge health technology, Jecizer Biosciences is quickly becoming the name you’ve probably haven’t ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

The research reveals how targeting the KMT2D gene could help correct oral disorders and prevent craniofacial birth defects.

Creating a synthetic human genome has the possibilities of improving human healthspans, but it also comes with extremely ...

New research presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest resistance and other valuable traits.

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to numerous ethical concerns. While the ...

In March, he received the prestigious American Association for Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR) Joseph Lister ...