Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) have developed a ...

A protein tied to ALS and dementia may have a much bigger role in disease than scientists realized. Researchers found that ...

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, ...

Cancer’s strongest gene switches push DNA into damaging overdrive, creating repeated breaks and repairs that may fuel tumor ...

Discover how CRISPR genome editing is revolutionizing medicine. Learn the science of Cas9, current clinical trials, and the future of gene editing.

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

Genetic switches near the FTO locus may enable hibernators’ extreme metabolic resilience and could inspire future treatments ...

Genes are only part of your story.

A recent study examines why Alzheimer's presents and progresses differently in individuals using advanced biological analysis to identify DNA-level changes in the brain.

A DNA test could help match patients with psychiatric medications, potentially reducing the long and frustrating ...

Genome editing-based therapies typically aim to treat disease by correcting underlying genetic mutations in patient’s cells. However, most genetic disorders are caused by dozens or even thousands of ...