Scientists at Princeton and the Simons Foundation have identified four biologically distinct subtypes of autism, using data ...

A global team mapped over 100,000 structural variants in human genomes by applying Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing and a ...

Meet 12 biotech companies with promising genetic disease therapies that successfully closed funding rounds recently.

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that your DNA may predict whether you’re likely to develop obesity—years before symptoms emerge.

Authorities in Missouri say DNA samples have solved a 1994 cold case, identifying a man's body found in the Mississippi River more than three decades ago ...

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

In a major genetic study, researchers revealed the unique ancestry of Ötzi the Iceman, the prehistoric man unearthed three decades ago.

Mosquitoes are highly visual hunters when it comes to finding a human to bite. This means movement and dark clothing colors ...

Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome in its entirety. That is, ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project was ...

Gene-edited animals or plants wouldn’t have a chance if released into a barren habitat or a poaching hotspot. Genomic tools ...