Genetic testing has had a shift in the past ten years, as it has left medical laboratories and entered living rooms.

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...

Genetics research and cognitive theory together are revealing autism’s biological depth and cognitive richness, shaping a ...

Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

Research has found that certain related genes cause people to be overwhelmed by a certain characteristic of beets and some ...

Adult neurologist Kristine Joyce Porto, an expert in molecular medicine and neurogenetics, has spotlighted her work on a ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder that affects how a person feels, thinks, and behaves, affects roughly 1% of the ...

Recent epic leaps in genetics have created a biodiversity library. As the genetic make-up of animals, plants, fungi, bacteria ...

The discovery of DNA was evidence of how deeply interconnected humans are, but the late scientist saw only difference.

Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for ...