Scientific breakthroughs Byron Caughey made over his lifetime made him a “giant” in the world of prion research, and touched the lives of people far beyond his Bitterroot Valley home.

Transplant sow 1126F’s successful birth signals change for Greater Yellowstone grizzly resilience, legal status.

Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the planet’s most vital ecosystems, from California’s towering redwoods to the seagrass meadows along its coast, both of which ...

Not all parts of our genetic code are equal, even when they appear to say the same thing. Scientists have discovered that ...

The weight you lose and the nausea you experience from GLP-1 drugs may be linked to common gene variants, but they can’t ...

Now, following up on that success, a large Chinese collaboration has followed up with a description of an improved gene ...

Lattice Materials is starting construction on a new facility in Bozeman as the company plans an expansion expected to create ...

Scientists have identified a new RNA molecule that may play a key role in improving survival in cancer patients.

In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish ...

New research suggests that a single gene may play an outsize role in developing Alzheimer's, which suggests gene therapy for the condition could reach many people. When you purchase through links on ...

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, sprawling human genome. By Gina Kolata David Botstein, a molecular biologist ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to design thousands of new DNA switches that can precisely control the expression of a gene in different cell types. Their new approach opens the ...