Ethan Hawke’s 1997 sci-fi film Gattaca turns 28 today, and its story about genetics and destiny feels more relevant than ever ...

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

A new, expanded edition of Maia Kobabe's graphic memoir 'Gender Queer' with commentary by queer and trans artists and ...

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

Researchers have developed an improved method of gene editing that is precise, more efficient than other similar methods and ...

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

Twenty-month-old Vida Rodriguez is the reason her 7-year-old sister, Alessia, is playing at home — instead of lying in a ...

Many babies enter the world with silent metabolic or genetic conditions. Today, standard newborn screening can check for some ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery.

Michigan Tech's Genomic Sequencing Lab, part of the University's Health Research Institute, plays a leading role in tracking ...