He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Creating a synthetic human genome has the possibilities of improving human healthspans, but it also comes with extremely ...

Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet—in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

A research team led by the University of the Basque Country has identified hundreds of molecular markers in saliva that could ...

For example, epilepsy is a nervous system disease that is actually a disease of specific neurons in the nervous system,” said study author Bosiljka Tasic, director of molecular genetics at the ...

Drs Ursula A. Matulonis and Katherine Fuh discuss the molecular classification and genetics of endometrial cancer as well as when to rebiopsy, research updates, and what's to come in the future.

Pharmacogenomics: A certain type of genetic testing helps identify how a person’s genetic makeup might affect their response to drugs. This information can help guide personalized treatment plans.

Eight hundred and seventy-seven participants underwent somatic genetic testing, which was reviewed by the Precision Medicine Molecular Tumor Board (PMMTB). Patients were diagnosed with cancers, ...

In humans, for example, the presence of the sex-determining “Y chromosome” decides whether a man will be born. The Silesian priest Johann Dzierzon already examined the sex-determining mechanisms of ...