Landmark Study Highlights Cloning as a Proven Conservation Tool for Species on the Brink
On April 2, 2025, Wildlife conservation nonprofit Revive & Restore published a landmark study in the peer-reviewed journal…
Rice research team creates universal RNA barcoding system for tracking gene transfer in bacteria
On Mar. 18, 2025, an interdisciplinary group of researchers from Rice University announced they have created a new…
Beam Therapeutics Announces Positive Data in Trial Demonstrating First Ever Clinical Genetic Correction of a Disease-causing Mutation
On Mar. 10, 2025, Beam Therapeutics announced initial safety and efficacy data from its Phase 1/2 trial of…
Scientists from Colossal Biosciences genetically engineer mice with extinct woolly mammoth
On Mar. 4, 2025, scientists at Colossal Biosciences announced that its scientists have simultaneously edited seven genes in…
University of Alberta life sciences research gets a $100 Million lift
On Mar. 4, 2025, the Government of Alberta announced it had contributed $100 million in capital funding to…
New methods reveal cancer mechanism in ancient genes
On Mar. 3, 2025, researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center announced they have discovered an overlooked mechanism driving…
Researchers identify DNA changes, biological pathways associated with inherited cancer risk
On Feb. 17, 2025, Stanford researchers have conducted the first large-scale screen of these inherited changes, called single…
Mechanism for treating muscle degeneration discovered
On Feb. 12, 2025, researchers at the Max Planck Institute released a study that could pave the way…
Alberta researchers genetically engineer yeast to produce healthy fatty acid
On Jan. 21, 2025, researchers from the University of Alberta announced they have come up with a way…
genomic origin of early maize in eastern North America reaveled
On Dec. 4, 2024, an international team of scientists led by the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, GLOBE Institute,…
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Study revealed how deadly brain tumor evades treatment; identifies potential new treatment strategy
On Nov. 21, 2024, a study from scientists at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center helps explain why…
UF scientists developed groundbreaking method for detecting DNA of invasive snakes in Florida
On Nov. 21, 2024, scientists at the University of Florida (UF) announced they have developed a pioneering tool…
Early skeleton map revealed how bones form in humans
On Nov 20, 2024, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and collaborators have used cutting-edge genomic techniques to…
Texas A&M Researchers Uncovered Secrets Of Horse Genetics For Conservation, Breeding
On Nov. 20, 2024, a research collaboration between the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences…
Scientists recreated mouse from gene older than animal life
On Nov. 15, 2024, researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the the University of Hong Kong…
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Researchers discovered unique genome folding in turtles
On Nov. 11, 2024, a team of researchers led by Iowa State University (ISU) have shown that as…
A melody of bases: How scaling allows us to set new bars
On Nov 8, 2024, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute celebrated a milestone of sequencing 50 Petabases of…
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Landmark agreement adopted for nation’s sharing of genetic data
On Nov. 3, 2024, the world’s largest biodiversity summit, known as COP16, concluded with several landmark decisions, including…
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Sanofi commits $18 million to Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, and Morehouse School of Medicine to increase diversity in clinical studies
On Oct. 16, 2024, Sanofi announced it will contribute $18 million to three Historically Black Medical Schools to…
Human-Specific Genes Revealed Link Between Brain Growth and Autism
On Oct. 14, 2024, researchers have found a link between two human-specific genes and the gene SYNGAP1, a…
DNA from old hair confirmed macabre diet of 19th century Tsavo lions
On Oct. 11, 2024, a team of researchers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced DNA analysis of the…
Special ‘skinny genes’ linked to weight loss
On Oct. 8, 2024, a team of University of Essex researchers found that the secret to losing weight…
Scientists develop a new method to study gene function in cells and tissue
On Oct. 7, 2024, Columbia University researchers announced they had developed a new optical pooled screening approach called…
Food fussiness a largely genetic trait from toddlerhood to adolescence
On Sept. 20, 2024, a study led by researchers from University College London (UCL), King’s College London and…
Breast and ovarian cancer linked to thousands of gene variants
On Sept. 18, 2024, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators reported that they had identified…
study found genetic variant for hair graying, susceptibility to skin melanoma in horses
On Sep. 4, 2024, an international consortium led by scientists from Uppsala University in Sweden reported that the…
Genome of the last living wild horse species mapped
On Jun. 13. 2024, University of Minnesota researchers announced they have successfully mapped the complete genome of the…
Genome study shows how horses galloped into human history
On Jun. 7, 2024, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona announced an analysis of genome data from…
USDA published H5N1 influenza A virus genetic sequences on publicly available site
On Apr. 21, 2024, United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) APHIS National Veterinary Services Laboratories announced it had…
Using next-gen CRISPR tool, Gladstone scientists created unprecedented molecular map of human immune response
On Dec. 13, 2023, In a study of historic scale, scientists at Gladstone Institutes announced that they had…