A new wave of gene therapy treatments offer a new lease on life for people with inherited diseases such as haemophilia. But ...

Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.

Fulgent Genetics is rated Hold due to strong diagnostic revenue growth but an unproven transition into integrated precision ...

Your genetic code is not as logical as it could be. What if we could rewrite our genetic code, and make it more efficient, ...

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins ...

Around 25 million Americans have rare genetic diseases, and many of them struggle with not only a lack of effective ...

A US clinic is offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like height and intelligence to "genetically optimise" ...

The first child in history has successfully been treated with a new genetic therapy for an ultra-rare developmental defect ...

Alyssa Tapley, 16, became the first patient with an aggressive form of leukaemia to have the experimental treatment in 2022.

Scientists trace Leonardo da Vinci's DNA through his descendants and family tombs to reconstruct his genetic code.

Geneticist Professor Turi King paints a more vivid picture of history through her work and her most recent project was her ...