New analytical methods developed at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have increased our ...

Clinical genome sequencing now delivers genetic diagnoses for about 1 in 4 suspected rare disease patients, guiding targeted ...

Study tracking blood cancers for up to 25 years reveals early genetic signs of disease progression and how genomics could refine diagnosis and guide patient care.

Scientists now recognize that spontaneous DNA errors, which we acquire in early development all the way until our last breath ...

Genetics, right? Sort of. Scientists just learned it’s a bit more nuanced than high school biology.

For the first time, a stem cell model has produced a structure resembling an early human embryo with a yolk-sac-like structure, from a single starting stem cell population and without direct genetic ...

Many new gene therapy treatments aren’t as profitable as predicted. But the reasons why don’t quite fit Goldman Sachs’ ...

Breastfeeding may influence how children’s genes work later through small biological changes after birth, according to a new ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

A newly proposed model suggests cancer cells may resist treatment not just through genetic mutations, but by dynamically reprogramming their gene activity. Credit: Shutterstock Cancer cells may “learn ...

New research shows how certain orphan noncoding RNA — oncRNA — can be predictable enough to be a ‘bar code’ identifying ...

With a few chemical tweaks and some dutiful protein partners, a new biotech from Flagship Pioneering thinks it has cracked ...