By examining genomic variation more closely, scientists can now identify new disease connections with greater speed and accuracy. For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can ...

These chains come in a wide range of lengths. In humans a typical protein is about 400 amino acids long; some are a lot longer. Molecules of RNA, one of the two nucleic acids, can reach up to 100,000 ...

Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain ...

The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a discovery that RNA—a key molecule thought to have potentially held the instructions for life before DNA ...

A combination of genetic tests for a "very complex" blood cancer could accurately predict if the disease is likely to return ...

ETH Zurich scientists have developed MetaGraph, a DNA search engine that can scan vast genomic databases in seconds. By ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...