When Marc and Cristina Easton’s son was diagnosed with autism at 20 months, the Baltimore couple left the doctor’s ...

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The critical work of those racing to cure rare pediatric diseases got an important shot in the arm today. Florida’s newly created Sunshine Genetics Consortium promises hope for children living with ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

We know that the genes we're born with contribute to the risk of psychiatric disorders during our lifetimes, and a new study ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

A groundbreaking trial in the U.K. has released data on eight babies born through a special IVF procedure to lower their risk of mitochondrial DNA disease. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

UNL researchers are linking cattle genetics and rumen microbes to find ways to cut methane losses and boost feed efficiency on ranches. AMARILLO, Texas — Methane isn’t just an environmental ...

Two key gene variants may have made early domesticated horses more tame and more physically resilient to bearing a rider, researchers report August 28 in Science. The resulting horses were among the ...

They also added that these findings provide new insights into human migration, technological exchange, and the early contacts ...