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

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 ...

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...

Genetic errors can cause many different diseases, and scientists have been looking for methods to fix those errors for decades. Although many gene therapies have aimed to correct errors in individual ...

Errors in a gene known to cause a serious neurodevelopmental condition in infants are also linked to the development of ...