Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 84, No. 8 (Apr. 15, 1987), pp. 2165-2169 (5 pages) Most small multicopy antibiotic-resistance plasmids of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — April comes to a close with 10 days that read the same forward as they do backward. That’s because any word, phrases or sequence that reads the same in both directions is known ...

As the human genome gradually yields up its secrets, scientists are finding some genetic events, such as rearrangements in chromosomes, are less random than they had previously thought. Originating as ...

The startling research paper detailing the first-ever attempt to edit the genome of human embryos has aroused a great deal of interest and some alarm, but the nature of the DNA editing technique, ...

You've probably heard of CRISPR, a fairly new tool for gene editing. But how does the technology work?. | Credit: Love Employee via Getty Images CRISPR, short for CRISPR-Cas9, is a genome-editing tool ...