Genetics

Researchers find that mutations are not the only drivers of tumor formation and that epigenetic alterations could be involved too.

Researchers have found a promising oral drug that could safely and reversibly reduce sperm mobility, shifting the burden of birth control more equally between sexes.

A genetic editing technique has shown success in treating the genetic disorder sickle cell disease in humans.

Researchers have uncovered a genetic variant that is associated with childhood leukemia disparities in Hispanic-Americans.

by Sanjana Kulkarnifigures by Swathy Karamchedu Forensic DNA testing has become crucial in criminal investigations and legal proceedings. DNA has linked people to crime scenes using hair or blood and exonerated wrongfully convicted individuals. This…

Losing a tail on human's evolutionary branch may have been caused by a rare kind of mutation resulting from parasitic, self-replicating DNA.

After generating 187 new genomes from primate species, researchers found a large fraction of the human genome that is highly conserved across evolution.

The Chimera of Greek myth had a lion's head, goat's body, and snake's tail. Scientists have made a chimeric monkey with cells from two types of monkeys, which could one day lead to better lab models for scientists and donor organs for patients.

In a breakthrough for synthetic biology, an international team of researchers constructed a functioning yeast genome where more than half of its chromosomes were made in a lab.

A group of researchers from across the country found that whole genome sequencing identified more potentially disease-causing variants than targeted gene panels in hospitalized infants