Scientists at Houston Methodist Research Institute have discovered that a fast-rising strep bacterium comes in more forms ...

The DNA blame game: are we fated to follow our genetic destiny? - Will Rogers-Coltman meets Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioral geneticist asking difficult questions ...

What is the human exposome? A massive study quantifying 115,000 associations shows that cumulative environmental exposures rival genetics in predicting disease.

For decades, scientists have been carefully unraveling the role of genes in disease by examining how small variations in a ...

A woman who was born with a rare genetic condition is learning to love the white streak in her hair. While Alex Lightly used ...

More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions for life.

Local researcher will work with wide range of institutions, including UCSD, Scripps Research, Duke University and MIT, to use ...

Analysis of hundreds of environmental exposures and health outcomes quantifies influence of nongenetic factors ...

Tumors can develop anywhere cells are present (i.e., essentially anywhere in the body), and they are classified as benign or ...

Bar-Ilan University researchers use CRISPR tool to alter Enh13 switch controlling Sox9 gene, causing XX mice to develop as ...

A fresh and important book reveals the messy reality of our ever-mutating cells – and why the quest to defeat ageing is ...