Most folks with genetics that put them at risk for high cholesterol and early heart disease aren't aware of their danger, a ...

A single multipurpose gene-editing tool can correct several genetic conditions by restoring proteins that have been truncated ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

Adolf Hitler had a rare genetic sexual disorder, according to new DNA research. The Nazi dictator had Kallmann syndrome, ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a ...

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...

“I remember singing it in the playground in the late 1970s,” said Guy Walters in The Independent: “Hitler has only got one ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

Genetic testing has had a shift in the past ten years, as it has left medical laboratories and entered living rooms.

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics ...

Psychiatric genetics offers insights into the complex, heritable nature of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar ...