Newly sequenced DNA from bones found in the Yukon and Wyoming reveals that despite its slender body, Miracinonyx trumani is more closely related to a different modern-day feline. A new study shows ...

Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective. By Carl Zimmer Over the past decade, the ...

The deaths of two children in separate gene-editing trials in China raise serious questions about oversight and could have a profound effect on the country’s biomedical industry, say researchers, ...

the beginning of a wave of new small cat species. This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end ...

The claim emerged in response to criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders changing the names of the geographic features known as the Gulf of Mexico, Denali and Lake Ontario. It's ...

Traditional gene editing rewrites DNA. But a new approach, called epigenome editing, aims to treat the molecular scars we collect throughout our lives. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn It is one of ...

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Citrus growers in Florida are planting new trees that have been modified using gene-editing technology to ward against the lethal citrus greening disease. Growers have tried everything from tents to ...

"Gene Off Script," the new daily talk show hosted by longtime Southern New England broadcaster Gene Valicenti, debuts Tuesday on NBC 10. The program will air live at 3 p.m. weekdays. Known to ...

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" echoed around the world on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong famously stepped onto the moon for the first time. But before Armstrong, ...