CRISPR opens door to new type of medicine: “genome surgery.”

Now that professor Norman Ellstrand has your attention, he’d like to teach you about plant reproduction.

The long sugar chains covering our cells could provide answers to cancer, aging and autoimmune diseases.

UC Irvine researchers win grant to explore why Alzheimer’s affects more women.

Stem cell gene therapy cures baby with life-threatening immune disorder.

Pancreatic cancer is often detected too late, but a new diagnostic tool shows promise.

A gene for digesting crunchy insects suggests that our common ancestor in the Age of Dinosaurs was an insect eater.

UC Irvine and UC San Diego are state co-leads of an unprecedented project to gather medical data for new cures.

Scientists are getting closer to bringing big animals, and big questions, to life.

Genetic makeup changes how we experience pain, making it difficult to figure out what each patient needs.

Three new projects will support efforts to develop a comprehensive reference atlas of all cells in the human body.

Only 60 Santa Cruz Island horses remain. UC Davis researcher Amy McLean is working to keep the line alive.