Around 1.5 million people in the UK are thought to be using weight loss jabs, with many paying privately as NHS supplies ...

Genetics is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field. What we learned in school was a valuable foundation, but modern science has revealed a far more intricate and dynamic picture. By understanding ...

The COVID Human Genetic Effort started recruiting volunteers last year, with a focus on healthcare workers who were exposed to the virus but didn’t get infected, and healthy adults living in a ...

Traditional cattle breeding has always involved modifying the genetics of animals, but the term “genetic modification” is often associated with more modern biotechnologies like genetic engineering and ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest resistance and other valuable traits.

Imagine a routine blood donation quietly holding evidence of a future cancer diagnosis. A recent study published in Cancer ...

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services insists he will soon announce the "cause" of autism, but setting a fixed ...

After years of collecting consumer DNA, genetic testing companies are monetizing the data. But who should profit — the ...

This paper presents the comparison of performance on a simple genetic algorithm (SGA) using roulette wheel selection and tournament selection. A SGA is mainly composed of three genetic operations, ...

In a major breakthrough, a team of researchers from Israel and the United States has developed a simple blood test that can detect the risk of developing leukaemia—one of the deadliest forms of blood ...

Mary Catchpole, 19, suffers from inherited activated PI3-Kinase delta syndrome (APDS), a life-threatening condition. | ITV ...

Mary Catchpole, 19, has the same life-threatening genetic condition, activated PI3-Kinase delta syndrome (APDS) ...