Genetic testing has helped plenty of people gain insight into their ancestry, and some services even help users find…
A group of scientists believe they’ve uncovered at least some of the genetic risk factors that can contribute to a…
The first wave of routine genetics testing has already helped millions of people learn about their hereditary risk for…
An international consortium involving over 50 institutions has announced an ambitious project to assemble high-quality…
An appeals court has upheld a 2017 decision recognizing scientists from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT as the…
The opium poppy is famous for its ability to produce painkilling molecules. Now, by sequencing its genome, a team of…
A new study of dogs published this week in Science offers a tantalizing glimpse of how life-changing the gene-editing…
There’s evidence of a connection between cannabis use and schizophrenia, but it’s unclear whether the drug leads to…
Scientists and biotechnologists have heralded the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system as revolutionary way to edit DNA,…
The UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics says it’s acceptable to genetically engineer human embryos, so long as the…
An excavation of a million people’s genes has provided some interesting clues to how several common psychiatric…
DNA tests can be easily fooled and different tests may draw wildly different conclusions about the supposed heritage of…
It was the kind of lawsuit that would only happen in Florida.
The pitch was a skincare routine designed especially for me, genetically optimized to give me the skin I was “born to…
Liza Lizarraga has spent hours combing through paper and digital archives to track her family’s history the…
Mistletoe might be a nice yuletide decoration, but it’s also a nefarious, parasitic badass that preys upon a series of…
I was crawling around on the floor, chasing my cat, Avalanche, as she artfully wriggled away from me over and over…
Dog may be man’s best friend, and even genetically similar to humans, to boot, but there are enough key differences…
When investigators revealed last week that a genealogy website had played a major role in catching alleged Golden State…
The identity of the Golden State Killer, a notorious serial killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s,…