The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

An international team led by researchers from King's College London (KCL) has now found that stubbornly persistent blood ...

Boston researchers sequenced a full human genome in record time, under four hours. The advance could speed life-saving diagnoses for newborns in intensive care. Boston Children’s Hospital, in ...

How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome tend to ...

Washington, DC Program The Forum featured sessions on genetics of complex traits and common morbidity over a lifetime; ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

The Mystra platform, developed over 10 years, offers biopharma partners proven analytical power to turn months of R&D into minutes, dramatically increasing the availability of quality genetic insights ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, President Bill Clinton stood before a podium in the East Room of the White House, and, in front of an all-star lineup of researchers and dignitaries, made a historic ...

Viruses can't survive on their own, and need a host cell to generate more viral particles and spread. So viruses can often manipulate the functions of cells they infect. Researchers have now shown ...