Mitochondrial disease is a rare and complex genetic disorder that affects people in different ways. There is currently no ...

Charles Gersbach and his colleagues are pursuing promising CRISPR technologies focused on controlling gene activity rather ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first gene therapy for inherited hearing loss, a one-time ...

A new elephant DNA map reveals growing isolation across Africa, raising concerns about inbreeding and long-term survival.

A robust and quantitative map links chromatin modification and gene expression of cells during zebrafish embryogenesis.

For decades, the “classical view” of genetics has hewn closely to the original work of Austro-Hungarian biologist Gregor ...

If scientists could shrink themselves to microscopic size and take a journey through the human body—like the submarine crew ...

This important study advances a new computational approach to measure and visualize gene expression specificity across different tissues and cell types. The framework is potentially helpful for ...

Understanding gene expression within the body has been a boon for 21st century biology and therapeutics, but most discoveries that use these technologies only focus on one organ or one small area of ...

David Botstein, a molecular biologist who changed the course of genetics by discovering a method for locating genes in human DNA — allowing researchers to find disease-causing genes and to map the ...

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, sprawling human genome. By Gina Kolata David Botstein, a molecular biologist ...

When someone is diagnosed with depression and anxiety, it rarely surprises their clinician. When someone with schizophrenia has mood symptoms, it rarely surprises their family. Comorbidity has always ...