A CRISPR-based system that erases itself from fly populations may offer a safer approach to tackling insecticide resistance ...

Gene drive, a genetic engineering technology that pushes offspring to inherit a particular allele from one parent more frequently than normal, has already worked in insects. Now, researchers show it ...

Instead, we found differences in their clock genes, which in hindsight makes sense.” Yash Sondhi, Study Lead Author, Florida ...

but they have these genes, likely to control basic cellular processes that multicellular animals probably later repurposed for building complex bodies," explained Dr. de Mendoza. This novel ...

UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.