The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

New data reveals differences in gene activity in the brains of men and women. They start in the womb and evolved millions of ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the ...

We have written about the promise of gene therapy to correct genetic disease many times. An exciting development happened ...

A collaboration led by Max Delbrück Center and University of Bath has uncovered how ancient viral DNA controls a gene linked ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

CorrectSequence Therapeutics' CS-121 Completed Dosing of First Chylomicronemia Patient, Demonstrating Excellent Safety and ...