Patients reveal persistent gaps in genetic testing, diagnosis, and clinical trial access—and implications for advancing ...

Creatures that can change from one form to another are a staple of science fiction: Think werewolves and Transformers. Nature ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed ...

RNA was long considered DNA’s boring biochemical relative. Researchers thought it merely takes the genetic information stored ...

Ferns, defined by large genomes, high chromosome counts, and pervasive aneuploidy as well as intraspecific polyploid ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton has yielded the oldest known genome of the bacterium behind syphilis, revealing a lineage unlike ...

A Florida state legislator sponsored the nation's first state-backed genetic screening program after his son died from a rare genetic disease.

KYOTO--Utilizing genome editing technology, a team of researchers has developed a much more effective treatment for a certain ...

Scientists show that 'genome shock' is responsible for neutralizing hybrid lethality, when seedlings die after two species of plant hybridize.

Researchers reprogrammed bacterial bridge recombinases to edit large genomic regions in mammalian cells, revealing a ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

To identify possible burn-injury response genes, researchers examined the transcriptomes (the genes expressed) in both burnt and unburnt skin from humans and rats. Examining the gene sequences, they ...