Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a leading cause of heart failure, is twice as common in Black individuals as in white ...

The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

From injury risk assessment to diet plans, Dr.Omics is one such company using genetic data to build the next generation of ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can reliably reveal these hidden structural variants and lead to new ...

This allowed, for example, building human societies that can overcome unbelievable ... “We’ve spent 70 years learning to read the genetic code. Understanding this new geometric code became possible ...

Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain diseases "ran in families." However, through the years, scientists have kept ...

In Gaza, where death looms at every corner, war is reshaping not only the everyday lives of Palestinian people but is also reconfiguring their genetic code. There are grave concerns that the physical ...

HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE is arguably the nastiest inherited illness around. Symptoms include involuntary jerking, difficulty swallowing and speaking, lapses of memory, lack of concentration, depression, ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein fragments called dipeptides. By analyzing billions of dipeptide sequences ...

URBANA, Ill. – Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way ...

Her computations allow physicians to more quickly diagnose and treat life-threatening genetic diseases. Sneha Goenka is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35. Meet the rest of this ...