Eight years ago, in what now seems like an act of reckless naivety, I bought my brother a 23andMe at-home DNA-test birthday present. Now the struggling company may sell its treasure trove of genetic ...

The blue blood of threatened horseshoe crabs contains a chemical essential for testing the safety of vaccines. So these ...

How can just four nitrogenous bases--adenine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil--possibly code for all 20 amino acids? Thus, early researchers quickly determined that the smallest combination of As ...

The genetic codes of plants and animals are stored in global databases, often without proper compensation to the countries ...

Researchers are still unsure how genes create shared facial features. Genetics play a significant role, but environmental ...

Researchers have unraveled a key genetic mechanism behind the way pathogens infect crops, leading to new strategies for ...

Breast cancer is the most common form of the disease diagnosed among women in the United States and decades of work in education, research and treatment played an ...

People from isolated parts of the U.K. could have variations in their genetic code that increase their chance of developing ...

More than 500 blood samples have already been taken from newborns at 13 NHS hospitals as part of the study, with plans to ...

That’s where Peter Koo, Assistant Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and his former graduate student Shushan Toneyan ...

Qatar's Zulal Wellness Resort now offers genomic testing so they can tailor the wellness experience to individual DNA ...