Once a defining tree of eastern forests, the American chestnut was nearly erased by a foreign fungus within a few human generations. A genetically engineered line known as Darling 54 has now pushed ...

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (04/26/2024) — University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have constructed a robot that uses machine learning to fully automate a complicated microinjection process used in ...

Berg P., Baltimore, D., Boyer, H., Cohen, S., Davis, R., Hogness, D., Nathans, D. et al. 1974. “Potential Biohazards of Recombinant DNA Molecules.” Science. 185 ...

A new machine-learning approach helps scientists more efficiently identify the optimal intervention to achieve a certain outcome in a complex system, such as genome regulation, requiring far fewer ...

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 ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...