Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, has long been viewed as a predictable structural component of tissues. However, a ...

Genetic testing for PALB2 (linked to an increased risk of breast and pancreatic cancer), CHEK2 (breast and colorectal cancers), BRIP1 (ovarian cancer), and RAD51C and RAD51D (breast and colorectal ...

Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

Until recently, few would have questioned whether two tools, in particular — GenBank, the world’s largest repository of full genetic sequences, and the Sequence Read Archive, which comprises ...

Scientists from a collaboration of Australian research institutions have proposed that editing multiple genetic variants in human embryos could significantly lower the likelihood of developing ...

Absegami High School announced Thursday that former wrestling coach Gene Barber has died. He was 73. “Coach Barber defined Absegami athletics for a generation,” the school said in a statement ...

Huntington’s is an incurable and fatal genetic condition that progressively affects movement, balance and cognition. It is caused by an inherited mutation in an allele of the HTT gene ...

Nearly 300 new genetic variants have been linked to depression, according to a new study that included a large sample of nearly 5 million people. The international team, led by researchers at the ...

The first whole genome study of mitochondrial DNA and high-resolution scans of nuclear DNA from endangered shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic Ocean show relatively high genetic diversity, despite ...

Scientists had suspected since the discovery of DNA’s structure in the 1950s that genetic misspellings and other mutations accruing in non-reproductive, or somatic, tissues could help explain ...