A study by IRB Barcelona reveals that transfer RNA (tRNA) genes accumulate mutations at a frequency up to nine times higher ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can have the same genetic cause, a discovery that won ...

Even as you read this sentence, the brain cells you are using to process it might be mutating. What if these changes could be ...

Tracking how blood cancers develop over time has uncovered important genetic differences between patients whose disease stays ...

DNA analysis of a Roman-era skeleton known as "Beachy Head Woman" suggests she was likely from Britain, revising earlier ...

For the first time, a stem cell model has produced a structure resembling an early human embryo with a yolk-sac-like structure, from a single starting stem cell population and without direct genetic ...

The future of medicine is being quietly built in an unassuming Perth lab by an impressive group that is flying under the ...

Many new gene therapy treatments aren’t as profitable as predicted. But the reasons why don’t quite fit Goldman Sachs’ ...

A newly proposed model suggests cancer cells may resist treatment not just through genetic mutations, but by dynamically ...

New research shows how certain orphan noncoding RNA — oncRNA — can be predictable enough to be a ‘bar code’ identifying ...

Health data from 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers appeared for sale on Alibaba after three Chinese research institutions violated data-sharing contracts. The ICO is investigating.

AI identifies 40-gene signature that protects some brains from Alzheimer's cognitive decline despite full disease pathology, ...