Research scientist Yosuke Tanigawa and Professor Manolis Kellis at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...

In a new study, researchers at McMaster University have identified a potential treatment for Sandhoff and Tay-Sachs ...

A team of Canadian researchers has found an existing US Food and Drug Administration-approved drug that could significantly ...

Genetic technology in medicine has evolved to the point where it is now being used to improve care and outcomes for ...

A new multi-national study has revealed that the shape of the heart is influenced in part by genetics and may help predict the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Turtle DNA may hold clues that advance human medical science, Iowa State University researchers told the school's news ...

By exploiting the genetic variation in cancer cells, an already approved cancer drug demonstrated enhanced effects against cancer cells in specific patient groups. This is shown in a recent study from ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

A genome-wide association study suggests 41 previously unreported loci on top of the 23 known loci that influence the disease risk for lumbar disc herniations. Many of these loci harbour genes ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered "hominin" group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers at McMaster University have identified a potential treatment for Sandhoff and Tay-Sachs diseases—two rare, often fatal lysosomal storage disorders that cause ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...