Iain Cheeseman and colleagues reveal the underappreciated role of single genes producing multiple proteins in atypical ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

Around 25 million Americans have a rare genetic disease, and many of them struggle with not only a lack of effective ...

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Research reveals that as men age, their sperm accumulates mutations, increasing the risk of passing genetic disorders to children. This natural selection process within sperm, coupled with lifestyle ...

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Sequencing has filled global archives with vast DNA and RNA reads, but finding signals in that noise has remained out of reach. ETH Zurich’s MetaGraph turns raw sequences into a compressed, full-text ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital (Duncan NRI) have created a new way to measure genetic variants in the ...

We’ve been talking about this for years now. Personalized medicine. Or precision medicine, if you prefer that term. The idea is simple enough on paper-stop treating patients like averages and start ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance that could expand possibilities for fertility treatment, according to new research. The ...