Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

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A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Several genetic variants associated with social behavior in honey bees are located within genes that have previously been linked to social behavior in humans, Ian Traniello at the University of ...

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