Modern biology has entered an age in which the hardest part of an experiment may no longer be collecting data,...

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A treatment designed to make contaminated water safer may, under certain conditions, help antibiotic resistance genes move more efficiently through...

A human, an octopus, and a coral may appear to belong to entirely different worlds, yet their chromosomes preserve traces...

CRISPR experiments have become remarkably precise at the level of individual DNA letters, yet proving exactly what happened inside a...

A genetic tool originally developed to estimate a person’s risk of developing type 1 diabetes could transform the diagnosis of...

A molecular switch linking two key chromatin regulators may help explain why cells in Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) age at...

The liver has long been viewed as a broadly similar organ in men and women, with differences often attributed mainly...

Eating disorders have long been described through visible symptoms: restricting food, losing weight, or consuming unusually large amounts in a...

BOSTON, Massachusetts — August 18, 2026 — George Church, the Harvard geneticist whose work helped define the modern era of...