Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

DNA from 3,700-year-old bones in a mountain cave in Calabria reveals a family relationship so rare it stands out even in deep ...

The history of genomics has long been a story of reading a book where only every fiftieth page made sense. While the Human Genome Project gave us the full sequence of human DNA over two decades ago, w ...

Scientists have pinpointed the exact genetic variant that transforms the beloved herb into a sudsy nightmare for 14% of the ...

In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...

That uncertainty surfaced in real life in 2022, when Google engineer Blake Lemoine became convinced that the company’s LaMDA ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...

Google DeepMind's new model deciphers how hidden DNA changes drive disease, predicting gene regulation effects with high ...

Researchers have quantified the role of obesity in common long-term conditions, showing for the first time the effect of ...

At the weekend in Kampala, a piece of news landed that could reshape the future of one of the world’s most neglected diseases. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had accepted a ...

Abbey Barrett’s parents initially noticed something might be wrong with their daughter in the year leading up to her ...

Stats have been revealed on just which areas of the UK and Ireland are affected by the little-known genetic disease; and it ...