With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...

Unveiling a new chapter in the understanding of human genetics, scientists have discovered a hidden geometric code within our ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their ...

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned ...

Researchers set a new world record for the fastest DNA sequencing, completing a whole genome in under four hours—a ...

In a first for adults in Singapore, scientists are conducting gene editing trials on heart patients to correct defects at ...

Differences between men and women in intelligence and behaviour have been proposed and disputed for decades. Now, a growing ...

The ban, which has been in place since March 4 following President Trump's doubling of tariffs on China, is expected to be ...