Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in ...

Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation.

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

A sweeping new genetic analysis suggests that humans living in southern Africa spent roughly 100,000 years in isolation, long ...

A new study suggests that certain genetic differences, passed down from ancient human ancestors, and exposure to common ...