Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

Scientists have long thought of DNA as an instruction manual written in the four- chemical bases—A, C, T, and G—that make up the genetic code. The prevailing belief was that by decoding these ...

Venture capitalists and top drugmakers are betting that technology from startup Soufflé Therapeutics will clear a roadblock to treating a range of diseases through genetic medicine. Genetic medicines ...

People diagnosed with autism in early childhood may have genetic and developmental differences from those diagnosed in late childhood and onwards. This is the finding of researchers from the ...

In 2023, Jill Martin took a test that changed her life. She underwent genetic testing for breast cancer and learned she had a BRCA2 mutation, which increases one’s risk of developing breast and other ...

Genetic testing for ATTR can detect transthyretin mutations and offer crucial information about risk, monitoring, and treatment, if needed. Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is a genetic condition that ...

'While chemo and radiation have ended, I'm still undergoing other treatments while raising money for research and awareness of genetic testing.' As soon as I received the diagnosis of Stage 2 breast ...

“Let’s declassify it,” the 43-year-old jokingly said on ‘Today with Jenna & Friends’ before sharing the alias Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, joined PEOPLE ...

The Y chromosome, the male relation genetic signature, has been a mystery to scientists for centuries. It’s the most repetitive and complex region of the human genome, and never before was it possible ...

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new research mapping 100 years of bacterial evolution. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger ...

HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE is arguably the nastiest inherited illness around. Symptoms include involuntary jerking, difficulty swallowing and speaking, lapses of memory, lack of concentration, depression, ...