In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

Researchers at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre have developed a digital phenotype to assist with automatically identifying ...

Accurate RNA splicing is essential for gene expression and human health, yet predicting how DNA sequence variations affect ...

A large analysis suggests that a multivariable risk assessment tool, called Stockholm3, can detect substantially more ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Medicine is rapidly evolving from statistical, evidence-based approaches to predictive, genotype-directed care, driven by ...

Scientists discover karyoptosis, a new cell death mechanism causing nuclear disintegration in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

For a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma-the most common infant cancer, occurring when early nerve cells grow out of control-the path to treatment isn't simple.

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

For Beijing-based METiS TechBio CEO Lai Tsai-ta, ageing is comparable to bugs building up in a complex software system – it happens once errors begin to accumulate in the genetic code of human cells, ...

As predictive medicine advances, legal scholars warn that decades-old federal guidelines could set up a potential clash between your genes and your job. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn Imagine this ...