University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which ...

UC San Diego scientists discover enzyme responsible for scrambling cancer genomes; results could enable new treatments for ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

A Canadian flight attendant, Gaëtan Dugas, was wrongly blamed as 'Patient Zero' for the AIDS epidemic. This damaging myth ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

A study has found gene variants that impact both addiction and education attainment in opposite directions -- a higher genetic risk for addiction was related with an increased chance of a lower ...

After more than 50 years of research, scientists still don't know exactly what causes autism. But the data make clear that ...

Researchers from Gladstone Institutes and Stanford developed a genomic mapping method that links complex traits to the gene ...

Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the ...