At the turn of the 20th Century, one could expect to live until 47 in the U.S. Now, medical advancements, like vaccines and ...

Li Zhensheng, a prominent Chinese geneticist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was awarded the nation's top honor for his contributions in cultivating high-yield wheat varieties and ...

Tarazona-Santos, who himself has Indigenous ancestry, is worried about the dearth of data. Certain genes, his team has found, ...

After raising $50 million to start the nonprofit, North Texas-based Colossal Foundation will initially focus its conservation ...

Renowned Harvard geneticist and serial entrepreneur George Church is at it again, with a venture that has raised $75 million from investors. Church’s biotech company GC Therapeutics launched on ...

Tan Jiazhen (1909 - 2008) established China's first genetics department, research institute, and life sciences college, and introduced the term "gene" to the Chinese language. Thirty people who share ...

But there’s also more than a little faith for the noted geneticist who has unraveled the mysteries behind some of the most terrible maladies afflicting humans, like Huntington’s disease ...

The expert's services are expected to cost €500,000 with excavation works set to commence at the former mother and baby home in February The services of a highly specialised forensic geneticist ...

He’s a physician, so his interest is often sparked while treating a suffering patient. But there’s also more than a little faith for the noted geneticist who has unraveled the mysteries behind some of ...

“They are rare, but typically they are impactful,” says Anne Goriely, a geneticist at the University of Oxford, UK, who was not an author of the papers. “New treatments and conceptual ...

Modern genetics arose 150 years ago when Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) elucidated genetic inheritance in peas, discovering parents pass on heritable factors that we now call genes to ...