During any other year, these groundbreaking advances would have been big news. Here’s some of what you may have missed while you were busy washing your hands.

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley and UCSF professor and Berkeley Lab faculty scientist, shares the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as a tool for making targeted changes to the genome.

Understanding how dogs age can help us fight human aging.

Gene loss 2 to 3 million years ago may explain why coronary events are common in humans but rare in other animals.

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

Analyzing one of Darwin's favorite birds, a research team finds the genetic changes that clipped the bird's wings.