Genes make up the blueprints and outline the process of building every living organism. To ensure that the right genes are ...

Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults.

The engineered cells could help researchers understand how cells work together and trace the origins of certain illnesses ...

The team used these newly generated stem cells to help form a living, breathing mouse from a developing embryo.

Research shows that genetic reasons are why some dieters experience the Yo-Yo Effect.

Using a gene-screening method, Stanford Medicine researchers have uncovered why chemotherapy can damage heart cells and have ...

Organisms are made up of cells, and in each of those cells, a genome encodes the instructions for that organism to grow and ...

Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MTDPS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by a marked decrease in mitochondrial ...

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at Stanford now have uncovered complex variants throughout the human genome that ...

Scientists have reprogrammed mouse cells into pluripotent stem cells using a gene from choanoflagellates, single-celled ...

Chemotherapy drugs can kill cancer cells by halting DNA replication, but a glucose-depleted environment can help cancer cells ...