Near Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., a population of mosquitoes capable of transmitting tropical diseases is hunkering down for a sixth straight winter. A new study of this group of Aedes aegypti shows they originated in Florida and, unlike their...
Yale geneticists have expanded the potential uses of a groundbreaking gene-editing technology by modifying a single variable — temperature.
The CRISPR-Cpf1 gene-editing technology has proved to be highly efficient in mice but not in other model organisms...
Right after conception, hundreds of tiny mutations begin to accumulate in cells of a developing fetus, a process that continues, but at a much slower rate, well into adulthood, a new study by researchers at Yale and the Mayo Clinic shows. The...
Steak or ice cream? To make the choice, the brain assigns a value to each option. For example, at dinnertime, steak may be ranked more valuable because the body needs protein, so the brain’s valuation system will respond more strongly to steak than to ice...