To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and ...

Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the ...

Elucidating the relationship between the sequences of non-coding regulatory elements and their target genes is key to understanding gene regulation and its variation between plant species and ecotypes ...

A Stanford Medicine study of thousands of breast cancers has found that the gene sequences we inherit at conception are powerful predictors of the breast cancer type we might develop decades later and ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

DNA synthesis is going global. The biosecurity rules aren’t keeping up.

Imagine you work for a hypothetical gene synthesis company, one of dozens around the world that manufacture tiny strands of custom nucleic acids like DNA for customers in academia and industry. DNA ...