As China manages to create a baby mouse using genetic material from two male mice, people wonder if there is a possibility of ...

Using new tech to observe real-time changes in microbial gut activity, researchers find eating in preferred circadian windows ...

Teeth may seem like static fixtures, but a new collaboration between engineers and clinicians is proving just how dynamic, informative and medically significant our teeth can be.

The cost of sequencing DNA has dropped dramatically, and with technologies like CRISPR, gene editing is becoming more precise and powerful than ever. From curing genetic diseases to designing the next ...

The genetic material from the donor makes up less than 1% of the baby born by using the experimental IVF technique.

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent ...

Want a bespoke baby? Check the beauty, brains, or brawn boxes on the embryo order form. Genetic tinkering is no longer ...

Scientists have successfully grown over 400 different types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab—a groundbreaking step toward replicating the complexity of the human brain.

The UCSF community is saddened at the passing of former UCSF faculty member William Rutter, PhD, whose collaborative and ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

Researchers have created over 400 distinct types of human nerve cells in vitro, vastly expanding the diversity available for ...

A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program designed to facilitate the kind of precision genome editing involved in the ...