Genetics

Paul and Mildred Berg establish endowed professorship and name biochemistry professor Mark Krasnow as its inaugural recipient

Serendipity and passion peg an elusive illness

Stanford researchers launch a massive study of lung tissue — healthy and diseased — in one of their own

Researchers engineer brewer’s yeast to produce a complex drug that’s in short supply

Altering cells could ease a promising cancer therapy’s side effects

A new CRISPR/Cas9 DNA labeling technique finds that DNA flails around during the transcription process, increasing its ability to connect distant regions of the genome.

Researchers have found that, contrary to previous studies, insulin levels and a specific genotype pattern don’t predict weight-loss success.

A young woman finds her voice

Tiny lab-grown blobs could aid understanding of psychiatric and neurological disease

CRISPR is a revolutionary gene-editing tool, but it’s not without risk