Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

Australians looking to learn more about their heritage through commercial ancestry websites could be helping police solve ...

For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard ...

The same pathogen can often elicit very different responses from different people. Scientists sought to understand more about ...

Researchers have uncovered the enzyme behind chromothripsis, a chaotic chromosome-shattering event seen in about one in four cancers. The enzyme, N4BP2, breaks apart DNA trapped in tiny cellular ...

Discover how emerging epigenetic clock models are reshaping our understanding of ovarian aging and revealing both the promise ...

Cancer is no longer seen as a single genetic error but as a complex, multi-layered disease shaped by DNA mutations, epigenetic changes and even patterns in medical images. New research at ...

The rise of gene editing forces regulators to confront a difficult question: How to protect fair play in the age of genomic medicine.

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Emerging research suggests reversible RNA editing mechanisms may influence heart disease biology while opening new avenues for biomarkers and next-generation cardiovascular ...

Cancer cannot be explained by mutations alone. Today, cancer is understood as a multifactorial disease, shaped by genetics, ...