From Mendel’s pea plants to modern genome mapping, the science of inheritance reveals how traits, health risks, and even tiny molecular details travel through generations. Pedigree analysis helps us ...

Laurie Clarke delves into the devilishly complex forces that shape our personalities – and the new research revealing ever more about how our genes do, and don't, make us who we are. In 2009, ...

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An examination of litigation trends involving the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA), which regulates the ...

A child known publicly as Baby KJ was celebrated onstage at the twelfth Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Santa Monica last ...

The company behind the dire wolf comeback hopes to restore Africa's bluebuck, once hunted to extinction by colonialists.

AI-guided redesign of protein alphabet in bacteria could unlock new ways to build synthetic organisms.

Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test ...

Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster ...

India has developed BIRSA 101, its first indigenous CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease, using a more precise ...

Ever wondered about your heritage and thought about taking an ancestral DNA test? Be careful what you wish for, says Jenny ...

On the surface, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are very different neurodegenerative ...