More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

After more than 50 years of research, scientists still don't know exactly what causes autism. But the data make clear that ...

The donation from Don and Anne Edwards aims to speed research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the 'dark genome' that are responsible ...

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

Israel is one of the top-ranked countries in the world in genomic research, he declares. “These are people who lead genomic ...

The code of life is now editable and the question humanity must answer in the 2020s is not whether we can rewrite it—but whether we should, and for whom.

New research reveals shared gene variants that link higher addiction risk with lower educational attainment, raising ...

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Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just beginning to grasp their genetic data.

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...