Paying homage to Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy of books and to the film Interstellar, our readers consider the upsides ...

A team of researchers has successfully engineered a bi-paternal mouse - a mouse with two dads - that survived until adulthood ...

This new tool, known as minimal, versatile genetic perturbation technology (mvGPT), combines the powers of gene editing, ...

A gene-edited mouse with two male parents has survived to adulthood, pushing new progress on stem cell research.

DNA transcription is the vital first step needed for switching on our genes. For a gene to be switched on, it must be acted ...

2003). Genetically modified animals have even been used to grow transplant tissues and human transplant organs, a concept called xenotransplantation. The rich variety of uses for GMOs provides a ...

Pregnancy is accompanied by profound changes in the body. Among other things, these affect the energy metabolism and the ...

A loss-of-function variant is a genetic modification that disrupts the normal ... which serves as the entry point for SARS-CoV-2 into human cells," said McCole, a professor of biomedical sciences ...