We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

Researchers have found that a new base-editing gene therapy can help treat a rare neurodevelopmental disorder called Snijders Blok–Campeau syndrome caused by mutations in the CHD3 gene. A specialized ...

UK health agency advertises nursing role for families in cousin marriages linked to higher genetic risks for children in ...

Researchers have reported that a topical gene therapy which can correct disease-causing mutations directly in human skin, raising the prospect of durable treatments for rare genetic skin ...

Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held assumption in genetics research. What researchers once thought were knots ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding for diverse biological applications, such as proteins that form the building ...

Scientists at a secretive Florida DNA lab are analyzing key evidence that could unlock the mystery of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.

Beren Therapeutics P.B.C.®, the parent company of Mandos LLC® and leader in cholesterol trafficking biology and cyclodextrin-based therapeutics, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...