Curled up inside every single one of the trillions of cells in the human body is six feet of DNA, spooled tightly and carrying the genetic instructions that govern so much of who a person becomes.

The cost of sequencing DNA has dropped dramatically, and with technologies like CRISPR, gene editing is becoming more precise ...

Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functions ...

A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that mice squeak when it is incorporated into their DNA.

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or ...

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

A new study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease and ...

From understanding hereditary diseases to predicting drug responses, sequencing helps researchers uncover the subtle language ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester—in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo—have ...

An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the ...