Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
The tenderness of cancer cells squeezed by a special apparatus can help pinpoint the ones most likely to spread the disease.
Keith Campbell, a biologist who was part of the effort to clone Dolly the sheep, has passed away at the age of 58.
Technology company Knome unveils a machine it says will "break the bottleneck" in the interpretation of human genome data.
A unique organism sighted only once, more than a century ago, could shed light on the evolution of multicellularity—if it ever actually existed.
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
Mass spec plus novel software equals dynamic views into the chemical lives of microbes.