Spending on the tests, which analyze genetic material from both people and pathogens, rose 20% year over year in 2024, the ...

Albrecht Kossel's Nobel Prize-winning research unveiled the chemical basis of heredity, shaping modern genetics and molecular ...

Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company that claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, is creating a biovault to preserve the genetic material of endangered species. The tissue ...

Around one million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, each year. To replicate and spread the infection, the virus must smuggle its genetic material into the ...

Like many viruses, the rabies virus has a relatively small genome compared to most organisms. Scientists have now revealed how the rabies virus can take control of cells even though its genome only ...

The Y chromosome is inherited only through the paternal line. Sons receive their Y chromosome exclusively from their father.

The new Massachusetts Parentage Act goes into effect in less than a month, on January 1, 2025. While much of the conversation has appropriately been around the changes it brings to laws for LGBTQ+ ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle. In recent years, scientists studying human DNA identified genetic signals ...

A Senate committee Tuesday approved a bill that would criminalize the use of someone’s genetic material without their approval. HB 449, sponsored by Rep. Ben Robbins, R-Sylacauga, creates a set of ...