More than 1,000 genes may serve as possible treatment targets for individuals with kidney disease, according to a new study, ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

A study on bat genomes, involving Texas Tech University, discovered genetic adaptations that help bats resist viral ...

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

GeneDx CEO Katherine Stueland likes the potential of newborn testing, but she says her Stamford, Connecticut, company is ...

In an article published in Molecular Cell, scientists have discovered how the three-dimensional organization of DNA in our ...

Thanks to ancestry kits, two families in California learned they have a distant ancestor whose identity has never been found.

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

Imagine your doctor calls you to discuss the results of your genetic testing. They tell you your results indicate you are ...

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...