Harvard Medical School researchers suggest people should bank stool samples when they are young to transplant when they later develop age-related diseases.

Researchers are still not sure why a gene-edited pig heart transplanted into a human patient failed, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Researchers uncovered differences in the brain cell types found among worker, queen, male, or unfertilized gyne ants.

Researchers have used environmental DNA approaches to identify bug DNA on tea samples, Nature News reports.

The initiative will focus on genomic technologies, products, and approaches that can help reduce emissions, maintain productivity and competitiveness, and ensure food security.

Researchers have uncovered bacterial DNA within the venom of five snake species and two spider species, the Washington Post reports.

Nature News writes that researchers are working on ways to avoid immune and inflammation issues that may arise in response to gene therapies.

Farmers in China are using genetics to improve their hog herds, according to Reuters.

The Washington Post reports that a team in Australia is working to bring the thylacine back from extinction.

Experts weigh the value of recent experiments testing genetically modified pig kidneys using brain-dead individuals, according to Nature News.

A new inquiry is to be held after genetic evidence indicates that Kathleen Folbigg's children may have been at increased risk of sudden death, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Under the terms of a nonbinding memorandum of understanding, the companies aim to establish global biosecurity and pathogen monitoring infrastructure in Qatar.

The direct parental or DIPA-CRISPR method relies on injecting Cas9 ribonucleoproteins into adult females to introduce mutations into their developing oocytes.

The Boston-based synthetic biology and biosecurity firm beat the consensus Wall Street revenue estimate but missed on the bottom line.

A New York court halts familial DNA searches, according to the Associated Press.

Technology Review reports that a porcine virus was found in the patient who died following a heart transplant from a gene-edited pig.

Many behavioral traits among dogs appear to be heritable, but the study did not find any that were breed-specific.

A new study examines outcomes among embryos found to be abnormal through preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy, the New York Times reports.

Nature News reports that initial data suggests Oxitec's modified mosquitos do lead to female offspring dying before adulthood.

The company is developing a system for the continuous detection of airborne microbes and toxins in real time.

Ancestry has introduced a new feature called SideView that will inform customers about what parts of their DNA and ethnicities are inherited from each parent.

BioMérieux said that it was unable to fulfill a backlog of orders for its BioFire respiratory panels during the quarter due to impact of COVID-19 on its workforce.

The program aims to provide grant funding for projects using genomics to advance food innovation and security in British Columbia.

The partners will work on high-throughput workflows for DNA extraction and library preparation to enable sequencing of thousands of samples.

The UK life science tools company hopes to bolster its high-throughput NGS genotyping position in the agrigenomics market through the acquisition.