Researchers have reached a major milestone in the effort to understand and treat Parkinson's disease: more than 100,000 DNA samples from study participants around the world have now been genotyped and ...

Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering ...

Investors and young scientists are pulling back from biotech, amid broader attacks on science under Trump, industry ...

Boston startup Bystro AI believes the mail-in genetic tests used by millions to trace their ancestry could also help people ...

The findings may have important implications for diseases linked to mitochondrial dysfunction. A newly identified form of DNA damage inside mitochondria, the small structures that supply energy to our ...

Researchers identified a new, sticky form of mitochondrial DNA damage that builds up at dramatically higher levels than in ...

DNA sequencing is one of today's most critical scientific fields, powering leaps in humanity's understanding of genetic causes of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and diabetes. One issue facing the ...

Rodolphe Barrangou, a genomic-editing expert at North Carolina State University who was not involved in the research, said ...

Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

Studying a person's genetic makeup can predict if they will go on to develop invasive breast cancer after abnormal cells have been found in their breast tissue. For the first time, researchers at King ...