HUMANS could live for centuries after scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal. The bowhead whale that can live for more than 200 years could hold the key to prolonging ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind.(WLFI) - Genetics make up who we are, what we look like, but they also can affect us in ways like cancer being ...

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual ... “We’ve spent 70 years learning to read the genetic code. Understanding this new geometric code became possible only ...

For years, we thought that as men got older, the risk of genetic problems in their children rose only slightly. This new ...

Summer McKesson’s quest for answers to her medical condition would unearth a family secret – and a doctor’s decades-old ...

India-specific database of Coronary Artery Diseases will help identify if a person has a risk factor of developing heart ...

Researchers at the University of Brighton have uncovered the molecular secrets behind the caterpillar’s astonishing transformation into a butterfly – offering new hope for conservation and human ...

An international team led by Monash University researchers has uncovered the genetic code governing the way genetic mutations affect mRNA and result in disease.

That breakthrough led to SHIELD, the first FDA-approved blood test for colon cancer, cleared in 2024. The test is near-perfect at detecting late-stage cancer, when there is a lot of cancer DNA being ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...