In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

By Ebele Orakpo While some believe that Genetic Modification is the best way to achieve food sufficiency, others call it agro ...

They're exploring its use for groundbreaking treatments for cancer and autoimmune disease, as well as for gene-editing ...

A new method developed by scientists could soon make liver disease treatment easier and more effective—without a transplant.

Liver cells are indispensable for research—for drug testing, to better understand diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, or liver cancer and for development of future cell therapies.

Scientists are testing genetic modification to collapse mosquito populations. What are the risks? HEALTH FEATURE | KEVIN GITHUKU | Malaria places a crushing burden on Uganda’s health system, as it ...

The discovery addresses a longstanding puzzle in cognitive epidemiology: while studies have consistently shown that children who score higher on intelligence tests tend to live longer, the underlying ...

The upside of this character-action-game genetic modification is a great-playing, highly challenging, and viscerally ...

A groundbreaking international study has uncovered striking genetic differences in how women and men experience depression, and it could help explain why women are diagnosed with the condition at ...

Should we genetically modify wild lions? Of course not, might be your instant response. But what if lions were being wiped out by a devastating disease introduced by people? What if the genetic change ...

We’ve been talking about this for years now. Personalized medicine. Or precision medicine, if you prefer that term. The idea is simple enough on paper-stop treating patients like averages and start ...