With a shared purpose, we can realize the true promise of CRISPR and improve healthcare, providing hope to more patients with ...

A new multicenter study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) and colleagues around the world, ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...

New twin‑study research finds that, after removing deaths from accidents and infections, genes account for about 50% of human ...

Scientists have long believed that longevity is shaped by lifestyle choices; however, a new study reveals that genes may play a larger role in determining how long people live.

From eye color to whether cilantro tastes like soap, genetic variability influences many factors in a person’s life. These inherited differences can also determine a person’s risk of developing a ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness. Investigators from Mass General Brigham used large public biobanks to determine that ...

Oral cancer is usually attributed to the use of tobacco, smoking, alcohol, and a lack of oral health care. However, can oral ...

Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to rebuild lost traits in ...