As opposed to gene-level mutations, mutations that alter longer stretches of DNA (ranging from multiple genes up to entire chromosomes) are called chromosomal mutations. These mutations often have ...

Montgomery said experiments have been started, and researchers are seeing a lot of good data, but it could be years before a ...

For the first time, scientists can quickly and precisely alter, delete, and rearrange the DNA of nearly any living organism, including us. In the past three years, the technology has transformed ...

The expression of specific genes is partially dictated by the way the DNA is packed into chromatin. It is a tightly packed combination of DNA and proteins known as histones. HDAC3 is a chromatin ...

Testing your DNA is easier than ever with an abundance of at-home DNA tests on the market. All you need to do is provide a simple DNA sample to learn more about your heritage and family history.

Each of these things — along with every other organism on Earth — contains the molecular instructions for life, called deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. Encoded within this DNA are the directions ...

The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell. After that, the next step in CRISPR gene editing is usually to alter that piece of DNA. However ...

How Do At-Home DNA Kits Work? Most at-home DNA testing kits use saliva and provide a collection kit. Once you send your collection kit back to the company, they will likely either send it to a ...

Using gene editing, the scientists plan to make tweaks to the part of the spud's DNA that controls how quickly ... promises to produce 'super-crops' by altering or cutting out genes that naturally ...

Turmoil at 23andMe, a company offering popular at-home DNA testing, has upset the industry. Following the resignation of every independent member of the company’s board of directors, its chief ...

Scientists have now sequenced the DNA of those remains, and while they could not prove once and for all that the remains are those of the Well-man, their findings are consistent with that ...

Charlotte Alter is a senior correspondent at TIME. She covers politics, social movements, and generational change, and hosts TIME's Person of the Week podcast. She is also the author of The Ones ...