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 ...

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

Achieved $30 million milestone from Roche and Genentech for delivering a whole-genome map of microglial immune cells—the second neuro map ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

A new genomic method has enabled multiple people with rare conditions to receive diagnoses that were previously unattainable by identifying complex structural genetic changes that are often missed by ...

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.

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 ...

Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, ...