The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

From injury risk assessment to diet plans, Dr.Omics is one such company using genetic data to build the next generation of ...

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

This allowed, for example, building human societies that can overcome unbelievable ... “We’ve spent 70 years learning to read the genetic code. Understanding this new geometric code became possible ...

Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, have uncovered the hidden code governing how genetic mutations affect RNA splicing and result in disease. The researchers were able to ...

The family were taking part in a study which is screening newborn babies in England for dozens of genetic conditions.

One of the most revolutionary tools in cutting-edge medicine is a molecular scalpel so precise that it can modify defective DNA and fix genetic diseases like sickle cell anemia, and chronic disorders ...

In Gaza, where death looms at every corner, war is reshaping not only the everyday lives of Palestinian people but is also reconfiguring their genetic code. There are grave concerns that the physical ...

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, ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein fragments called dipeptides. By analyzing billions of dipeptide sequences ...

URBANA, Ill. – Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way ...

Her computations allow physicians to more quickly diagnose and treat life-threatening genetic diseases. Sneha Goenka is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35. Meet the rest of this ...