The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, working with collaborators at Imperial College London and partners in Europe and the United States, have uncovered new insights into how an additional copy of ...

Genre labels are generally innocuous until a person sets out to reposition the signposts. Gene Simmons has come back to an ...

Researchers with Texas A&M’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences are working to create a genetic map that could explain the origins and causes ...

From rare cancers caught early to dementia foretold decades in advance, newborn genomic testing is a medical miracle - but it also raises unsettling questions Imagine you could learn from birth that ...

Did you know one of the largest collections of marine DNA in the entire world is hiding just outside D.C.? In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” we’re taking an even deeper dive into the ...

Scientists have created a complete map showing how hundreds of possible mutations in a key cancer gene influence tumor growth. The study focused on CTNNB1, a gene that produces the protein β-catenin, ...

Autism spectrum disorder is complex; it presents differently in different patients, and the causes are still unclear, even though hundreds of small changes in gene sequences have been linked to an ...

The famous and rightly revered genetic technology CRISPR made headlines recently for saving a baby from a rare genetic condition. CRISPR is considered the front line of gene tech, and it’s already on ...

An international team of researchers has shed light on why mental health conditions often occur together. Researchers analyzed data from more than 6 million people to explore the connections among ...

Sometimes, a small error in the sequence of DNA can lead to a very serious disease. Scientists have identified many mutations that arise in a single gene to cause an ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing links left by traditional genetic studies. The technique could transform how ...