Scientists have found the first direct evidence of the powerful role our genetic makeup plays in influencing our risk of ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of DNA can be passed down to future generations and are important for how we ...

Researchers working on an incurable blood cancer can now use a new lab model that could make testing potential new treatments and diagnostics easier and quicker, new research has found. Working with ...

Learn how personalized genetic therapy helped researchers treat two children with a rare form of epilepsy, enabling one to ...

Researchers have developed a way to edit the genetic sequences at the root of Huntington's disease and Friedreich's ataxia. If longer than a certain threshold length, these sequences grow in length ...

For children with SCN2A-related developmental epileptic encephalopathy (DEE), seizures can begin alongside serious delays in ...

Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in development. These areas are in the initial portions of genes, where the cell tends ...

Mutation rates govern the introduction of genetic variation and influence evolutionary trajectories, disease susceptibility and species diversity. Rates are shaped by a balance between DNA damage, ...

Autism spectrum disorder is complex; it presents differently in different patients, and the causes are still unclear, even though hundreds of small changes in gene sequences have been linked to an ...

A study has found that even if all causes of aging, such as telomere shortening, are eliminated, only half of people would ...