Biological relationships are the foundation of every family, but sometimes primary documents are not enough to prove these ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

Rapidly testing hundreds of thousands of DNA sequences, scientists identified specific genetic variations contributing to blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

Although e-cigarettes are often considered safer than conventional cigarettes, their vapor still poisons lung cells and ...

About 30% of the tendency to experience “aesthetic chills” from music, poetry, or art is linked to family-related factors.

Structural nanomedicine — what helped give us the COVID vaccine — may now be the key to a potent blood cancer treatment that’s had remarkable early results.

In pet genetics, cancer research, and beyond, Charlie Lieu, MBA ’05, SM ’05, has spent her career harnessing massive data ...

Older adults with exceptional memories continue to grow new brain cells. A recent study published in the journal Nature shows that this biological process nearly stops in people with Alzheimer's ...

I don’t have cancer of the pancreas. Receiving this result, after being the first Australian to undergo a revolutionary new ...

PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), developer of the world’s most advanced sequencing technologies, today announced a collaboration with DNAstack to power the world’s first global federated dataset of HiFi whole ...

Experts have explained how DNA evidence may still be vital to solving the case and locating the suspect in the Nancy Guthrie ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...