When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

A new genetic analysis of people with autism and their relatives has turned up 18 new genes associated with the disease.

NEW YORK — Scientists are scanning human DNA with a precision and scope once unthinkable and rapidly finding genes linked to cancer, arthritis, diabetes and other diseases. It’s a payoff from ...

The California Department of Justice will help crime investigators identify new suspects in cold cases by scanning its DNA database for near-matches to crime-scene samples after an attempt to find ...

Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital are offering new parents a landmark test that could screen newborns for around 1,800 conditions. But most parents are declining the controversial test.

DNA scanning and signal transduction Our finding of a single ADP molecule, bound in the mismatch-binding monomer, fits with data showing that the two ATPase sites are non-equivalent 10, 33, 34.

Scanning one of those strange, square QR codes with your phone looks like a quaint invention compared to a new development from researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). They ...

DNA scan for infants raise questions of privacy and discrimination December 28, 2017 / 8:17 AM EST / CBS News This piece originally aired Oct. 24, 2017.

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have made a major breakthrough in genome sequencing, which will enable them to search for the underlying causes of diseases in human DNA quicker than ...

Researchers have recently developed a device that can turn any smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope.

In this age of DNA, with for-profit companies scanning customers' genomes for DNA variants associated with disease and the "$1,000 genome" within reach, it seems positively antediluvian to bother ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...