A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing ...

Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

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

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Drug development in biotechnology takes time. A lot of time. On average, it takes 10 to 15 years to take a medicine from ...

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

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

About 30 children aged 3 to 12 years old and their parents are participating in a new program that uses DNA testing to identify genetic gifts and predict the future. When Director Zhao Mingyou first ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...