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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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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 ...