Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome.

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have ...

Testing SMA patient DNA with advanced methods like HapSMA can reveal genetic changes that affect how severe the disease is, ...

It's not often a famous composer helps solve a 200-year-old mystery, but DNA from Beethoven's hair might actually do that.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties, argues that law enforcement use of ...

After more than 60 years of genetic guessing, scientists have finally cracked the code behind what makes orange cats so… ...

Biologists have discovered that disruptions in transfer RNA function can lead to the development of cleft lip and cleft palate.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will have to recover from their time in space. Learn more about what happens to the human ...

Latest study leverages new constructs for nuclear localization signal (NLS) sequences to improve editing efficiency in human immune cells.

The way our streets are designed is killing us. A recent book details how the field of traffic engineering needs to catch up ...

Americans generally view big government as bad, remote, wasteful and unresponsive, if not irresponsible. Americans, going ...

In Ricaurte, Colombia, more than 50 people suffer from the most common hereditary intellectual disability on the planet.