Hong Kong’s first large-scale genome sequencing project has recruited more than 52,000 participants in about four years of ...

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Researchers discovered that bowhead whales achieve extraordinary longevity and cancer resistance through highly efficient and ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

The team found that neurons from individuals with postmortem CTE diagnoses had specific abnormal patterns of somatic genome ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Helex has raised $3.5 Mn in its seed funding round led by pi Ventures, with participation from a host of investors, including ...

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

Genes linked to childhood intelligence also predict parents living longer. Study of 400,000 people reveals biology connecting ...

New scientific article warns of loss of consumer trust unless proper analysis is done. Report: Claire Robinson ...

This allowed, for example, building human societies that can overcome unbelievable ... What could be possible if we learn to harness the computational powers of genome geometry and genetics? And what ...