Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating proteins and cells, the building blocks of life, according to a pioneering ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more ...

Cancer is a disease of the genome, according to Dr. Elli Papaemmanuil, computational oncologist at MSK. By looking at the ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

New research pinpoints 298 parts of the genome associated with higher risk of bipolar disorder. This could lead to better ...

GeneDx CEO Katherine Stueland likes the potential of newborn testing, but she says her Stamford, Connecticut, company is still studying the idea. A potential challenge: Insurers would have to embrace ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

Stem cell engineering and CRISPR were used to create mice with two male parents. Could we use this technique on humans?

The technology was announced at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. In this project, the stakeholders aim to use a human reference genome to combine with patient data in order to try ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated. The map contains the most ...