I wonder if we really understand how we each one came to be. Let me share with you a stunning perspective. We all began in the same way, one cell from your mom found one cell from your dad. The cell ...

The craze to know the secrets held by your DNA has hit home. One of my daughters expressed a Christmas wish for the popular kit that promises the answers to the riddles of your heredity. The ...

In this dense, tangent-filled book, bestselling author Braden (The Isaiah Effect) argues that every human being has the name of God literally embedded in his or her DNA. Braden's research relies ...

Inside Josiah Zayner's Oakland apartment is a $350 genetic toolkit that allows him to edit genes. Half a world away in China, experimental scientist Dr. Laioxue Lai walks past dozens of mutant pigs -- ...

There is a major difference between the 1997 movie Gattaca and its original script. The former doesn't explain the exact goal of the space mission to Saturn's moon Titan, but the latter does. It is to ...

Researchers in the USA genetically engineered common E coli microbes to add DNA molecules which are not naturally found in the bacteria. Throughout the history of life on Earth, the code of life has ...

WASHINGTON — It has been 50 years since scientists first created DNA in a test tube, stitching ordinary chemical ingredients together to make life’s most extraordinary molecule. Until recently, ...

DNA contains foundational information needed to sustain life. Understanding how this information is stored and organized has been one of the greatest scientific challenges of the last century. With ...