Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Hair is pretty tricky. Unlike almost every other organ in the human body, which finishes its development in the womb, the ...

Nobel laureate James Watson was expelled from his own laboratory after controversial racial statements that shook the scientific world.

Yentli Soto Albrecht has a rare genetic form of ALS and is working on research at Penn that could one day prove life-saving.

New research assessing the efficacy of optical genome mapping (OGM) in a group of patients with acute leukemia has demonstrated that OGM provided reliable and robust analytical performance with high ...

A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery-how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of ...

Pulling some methodological tricks: Based on brain organoids such as this one – i.e., three-dimensional replicas of the brain measuring only a few millimeters in diameter – the researchers tested the ...

Genome editing-based therapies typically aim to treat disease by correcting underlying genetic mutations in patient’s cells. However, most genetic disorders are caused by dozens or even thousands of ...

When closely related species mate, their offspring sometimes survive but cannot reproduce. This pattern often affects males ...

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have made an important discovery about how genetic mutations in ...

A peer-reviewed, multi-clinic study published in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics suggests an epigenetic ...