For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

New research published in Nature Communications is being shared freely to help scientists, farmers and brewers worldwide ...

California sues 23andMe successor after hackers stole genetic data from 7 million users, targeting specific ethnic groups for dark web sales.

A study of nearly 500 domestic cats uncovered similarities between cancer gene mutations in felines and humans.

New research published in Nature Communications is being shared freely to help scientists, farmers and brewers worldwide protect and improve one of beer's most essential ingredients Copenhagen, 27 ...

Throughout history, most of the world’s genomic research has relied on Ananyo Choudhury from people of European ancestry. A ...

UMSL computer science students in Sharlee Climer’s biological data science course analyze genetic data and network models to uncover biomarkers for disease subtypes.

The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in many parts of the world.

Gene therapy aims to target illness at its genetic source rather than manage symptoms. Here’s how the science works, and why researchers think it could transform medicine.

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

A new DNA study found that Peruvian Andeans possess a high number of salivary amylase genes, or AMY1, for digesting starchy ...

Genetic code surprise: An Oxford pond microbe uses two universal stop codons to code for amino acids, breaking a key rule of molecular biology. Why it matters: The discovery could alter evolutionary ...