Scientists have created gene-edited pigs, goats and cattle to produce sperm with traits such as disease resistance and higher meat quality in what they say is a step towards genetically enhancing ...

The institute broke ground on a new Camden-based life sciences campus on Thursday. The building will support Coriell's ...

Vaccines do not cause autism. Yet adding autism to the list of conditions covered by a federal payout program, as health ...

For example, for every extra one to three drinks per week, the risk of dementia increased by 15%. And a doubling in the genetic risk for AUD was associated with a 16% higher risk of dementia. These ...

PacBio (Nasdaq: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, highly accurate long-read sequencing solutions, today announced that the National Institute on Aging’s Long Life Family Study (LLFS) selected ...

Xuan Zhuang, an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Arkansas, was awarded $2 million from the ...

There are relatively few snow leopards in the world, and it has likely been that way for a long time, a new study indicates. This situation increases their risk of extinction in a changing environment ...

Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today—knowing ...

Some conservation groups are calling for an effective ban on genetic modification, but others say these technologies are ...

Using fruit flies as a model species, researchers will study how individual differences in genetic background and diet can influence susceptibility to metabolic diseases.

"We have different dairy farms, we have different preferences and we have these great new technologies and tools that let us ...