(THE CONVERSATION) Insects do a lot more harm than ruining picnics. Some insects spread devastating diseases, while others cause staggering economic losses in agriculture. To control some of these ...

A study finds that lifestyle and environment influence health more than genetics. Smoking, income, and exercise shape disease ...

Scientists used nanoparticles to introduce genetic material into plants, enabling faster and temporary crop modifications.

Florida investigators teamed up with a forensic genetic genealogy company to make a DNA profile that led to the ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators have identified novel genetic interactions that may contribute to congenital heart disease (CHD), a common birth defect.

Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift in modern medicine, offering unprecedented opportunities to combat diseases at their ...

Researchers from Leicester have uncovered important insights into how people’s DNA affects their response to the drug Varenicline ...

Rates of genetic testing for autism and intellectual and development disorders were associated with race, gender, and insurance company.

We wanted to develop a method that detects metabolites using DNA sequencing ... principal investigator on the study and professor of molecular genetics at U of T’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

Researchers developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the liver, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for about 700 genetic ...

"Today, the diagnostic yield of genetic sequencing is frustratingly low," Paten said. "One likely cause is the incomplete sequencing methods used in clinical practice. In this work, we test the ...