Scientists have identified mutations in the CPD gene as a key cause of a rare congenital hearing loss, revealing how ...

Winter vomiting disease is caused by the Norovirus, which is most virulent during the colder half of the year.

Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Maike Morrison builds mathematical tools to quantify and compare biological variation. Her ...

Bill Gates's comments on genetics as "code" have reignited debate over genetic engineering, intellectual property, and the ...

How to choose the embryo with the most developmental potential is a very important topic in the field of assisted ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

Genomics has administered a double dose of litigation to Illumina, joining with separate partners in a pair of federal lawsuits accusing the sequencing giant of infringing on nine patents related to ...

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

Human embryos formed with in vitro fertilisation can develop genetic abnormalities in the time between genetic testing and ...

Rays (Batoidea) comprise a highly diverse group of cartilaginous fishes that inhabit ecosystems from shallow coastal areas to the pelagic ocean. They play ...