Researchers have identified a novel genetic risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection, providing new insights into the virus's ...

Learn more about how researchers zoomed in on the genomes of Chornobyl's dogs.

Osteosarcoma is a type of aggressive bone cancer that most commonly affects children and young adults between the ages of 10 and 20, during times of rapid bone growth. Although rare, it has a ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade ...

A Mayo Clinic-led team of researchers is solving one of the most frustrating aspects of genetic cancer screening — results that give zero guidance to patients on whether they are at elevated risk.

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but ...

A team of Japanese scientists has discovered the gene that determines the fur color of calico cats, which are characterized ...

Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal ...

Cancer is a disease of the genome, according to Dr. Elli Papaemmanuil, computational oncologist at MSK. By looking at the ...

Linda Nolan has become the third of the four Nolan sisters to have died from cancer disease in the past two years ...

Mars is a strange place and any humans born there are bound to look radically different over thousands or even hundreds of ...