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 ...

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 explanation often lies in your DNA, or more precisely, your gene types.

Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified issues with most genomic sequence data for the Neisseria gonorrhoeae ...

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

The developmental period is a critical window during which environmental cues interact with the genome to shape lifelong trajectories of health and disease.

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...