Building simulations based on real genetic data, researchers conclude Gattaca-like tactics to choose the traits of future offspring would yield little payoff.

Genes that are exceptionally long or short are overrepresented in some published reports, which can lead to misinterpreted results.

Researchers analyzed more than 800 species.

An analysis suggests that DNA cribbed from soil microbes enabled plants’ ancestors to colonize a terrestrial environment.

Using DNA data, researchers track family dynamics in Europe over the last 500 years and find socioeconomic status is related to married women having a child with a man other than their husband.

Distantly related, lookalike Heliconius species arrive at the same appearance using the same few genes, but regulated differently, according to recent studies.

The US Food and Drug Administration halts a study by Solid Biosciences after a patient experiences severe side effects following treatment.

Criticism of the paper first surfaced in 1994, and its author was accused of scientific misconduct.

Cardiomyocytes made from iPSCs aboard the International Space Station had upregulated mitochondrial functioning.