Your genetic code is not as logical as it could be. What if we could rewrite our genetic code, and make it more efficient, ...

The ability of different genetic variants—changes to one or more building blocks of DNA—to cause disease, and to what extent, ...

Novel approach to engineering complex microbial traits generates tens of millions of gene combinations, enabling gain-of-function traits beyond those ...

A woman had sex with two identical twin brothers within the same four-day window. Nine months later, a child, known only as ...

(FocalFinder/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Researchers have identified a previously unknown neurodevelopmental disorder ...

By sequencing the DNA of thousands of Latin American individuals, researchers confirmed that autism risk genes are ...

What is the human exposome? A massive study quantifying 115,000 associations shows that cumulative environmental exposures rival genetics in predicting disease.

Scientists at Houston Methodist Research Institute have discovered that a fast-rising strep bacterium comes in more forms ...

Researchers say they have achieved a "world first" by successfully mapping the DNA of a monkey in Staffordshire. The ...

More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions ...

Rahul Kanadia finds the universe in a minor detail. As an associate professor of physiology and neurobiology at the ...