Professor Carsten Carlberg has published a comprehensive new textbook, "Gene Regulation and Epigenetics: How Science Works," ...

Much of the message of my first book, "The Selfish Gene," was that we must understand ... to try work out the principles we want to live. But when you say religious principles, there I think ...

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

Undaunted, my daughter checked out books about dog breeds at the library and pored over them. She made lists of how the ...

As the most wonderful time of the year approaches, I worry about a nonwonderful part of the season: Trying to find gifts for ...

They’ve also managed to tweak this gene to produce it in fruit flies ... Scientists made fruit flies live 30 percent longer ...

And they may have just unlocked our ability to switch on an "immortality" gene. You and I - we all have an immortality gene hidden inside our DNA... According to Dr. David Sinclair of Harvard's ...

When composer Mason Bates approached Michael Chabon about turning his novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” into ...

Here’s how it works. Scientists have discovered a gene variant that could make some parents more likely to have girls than boys. In the new study, researchers analyzed the genomes of around ...

The researchers tested this theory in fruit flies by editing the gene that produced F-actin in the brain to produce less, but they only edited the genes in the flies' neurons. Despite this limited ...

“And if you think icon, which icon would you think is bigger than Gene Simmons? No one. So to have him say that — I’ll take anything he says.” Tran, 26, agreed with her dance ...

Gene Park is a reporter for The Washington Post, covering video games and gaming culture. He joined The Post in 2015 as audience editor, and is a former reporter in the West Coast and Pacific region.