Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Speculation about the alleged findings of a study on long COVID and post-vaccination syndrome spread widely among vaccine ...

After 50 years, scientists discover the MAL blood grouping system, solving a genetic mystery and improving transfusion safety ...

The surprising paradigm shift could lead to much more protective sunscreens and effective skin treatments.

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces-short reads.

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

An international team of researchers has taken an important step toward understanding how gene expression is controlled ...

Researchers in Germany studying honeybees found that DNA can predetermine certain behaviors. Their findings may shed light on ...

Scientists at UCL examined DNA from human's closest relative chimpanzees to make a significant finding in relation to how ...