A powerful new discovery reveals that Nup98 a protein once thought to only ferry molecules through the nucleus plays a vital ...

When DNA breaks inside the cell, it can spell disaster, especially if the damage occurs in areas of the genome that are ...

Using a tool called Automated Meiotic Mapping (AMM) that was developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center, a team of ...

A study led by biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine shows how a genetic ...

Researchers discovered a genetic mutation that could explain why some individuals thrive on as little as three hours of sleep ...

Tests in 1,225 patients with the most deadly form of skin cancer reveal for the first time a genetic trait among most of ...

You may have seen it in the news recently: a baby in Pennsylvania with a rare genetic disorder was healed with a personalized ...

Genetic defects are exceedingly common, which is not surprising considering just how many cells make up our bodies, including ...

Broad Institute researchers have developed a way to edit the genetic sequences at the root of Huntington's disease and ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine-led research team believes the effect of the mutation and the number of people who carry it is similar to BRCA2 and other gene mutations that have been connected with an ...

Jorde explains that this mutation rate is as fundamental to human biology as the speed of light is to physics. “This is something you really need to know—the speed at which variation comes into our ...

A BABY has had his DNA rewritten to treat his a deadly genetic disorder in a world first. Little KJ Muldoon, now 15 months old, was diagnosed with an ultra rare disease just days after his birth ...