Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

New 3D genome maps reveal how DNA folding controls gene activity, offering fresh clues into disease and cell function.

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...