Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

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

The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study ...

University of South Australia scientists have developed a powerful new way to uncover the genetic interactions that fuel cancer progression, paving the way for earlier and more precise treatments.

In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – ...

An evolutionary "trap" has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise—yet persists all the same.