Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

More people are turning to genetic counseling to understand their DNA and assess their risk for certain diseases. As part of ...

Cystic fibrosis represents one of the most common inherited genetic disorders affecting people of European descent, touching the lives of approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States alone.

Someone asked “What is a genetics fact that not a lot of people know?” and people detailed their best bits of info.

In Destiny’s Child No Longer: Rewriting Genetic Fate, we envisioned a world where every newborn would be screened for genetic risks. We see a future in which the randomness of genetic inheritance ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...