Scientists say that 55 percent of differences in human lifespan are due to genetic makeup, much more than previously believed ...

Biobots, whose growing line of variants started with xenobots, are fascinating tiny self-powered living robots built ...

In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one years ...

A Stanford Medicine study of thousands of breast cancers has found that the gene sequences we inherit at conception are powerful predictors of the breast cancer type we might develop decades later and ...

Imagine a tiny superhero inside every cell of your body whose job is to stop damaged cells before they turn dangerous. That ...

A gene borrowed from the naked mole rat, an animal famous for extraordinary longevity and disease resistance, helped mice ...

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked ...

An international team of researchers has modified a probiotic yeast to make it safer for use by immunocompromised people, older adults and infants. Testing in an animal model found that the modified ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...

A new study of German twins suggests that the strong connection between a young adult's cognitive ability and their future ...

For years, the CRISPR-Cas9 genome technology has been reshaping genetic engineering, a precision tool to transform everything from agriculture to medicine. With its incredible efficiency, this ...