An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

The microinjection robot detects embryos that are one-hundredth the size of a grain of rice, calculates a path, and automates the process. Credit: Andrew Alegria, University of Minnesota Twin Cities ...

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Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, according to a new study.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The period between the 1920s and 1950s was a time of significant progress and exciting discoveries in gene therapy history and ...

That rogue scientist who created HIV-resistant designer babies is apparently gearing up for more human gene-editing research. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, He Jiankui said he wants to ...

Biologists have made a major breakthrough by using artificial intelligence to design the complete genetic blueprint of a virus that destroys a killer bacterium. The AI-created virus, named Evo-Φ2147, ...