Scientists sought to work out genetic errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s original ...

DURHAM – A genetic risk for heart disease is far less predictive of problems than actual lifestyle risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes — even among younger adults.

Over the past several years, the field of medical genetics has continued to expand and is now impacting a broad range of medical care, mainly due to rapid advances in genetic technology and ...

While we’re enjoying the last days of summer, many signs of fall are already here: the UC Davis campus buzzing with staff and ...

Among a number of potential approaches to delineate mechanisms of human development, the study of families affected by birth defect syndromes has numerous advantages. The goal is to understand basic ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent identical in their DNA is hard to accept for some people, who can't comprehend how we could share so much of our basic genetic ...

PHOENIX — The practice of having multiple spouses, in particular wives when the practice was popular, was outlawed almost a century ago. However, a town on the Arizona-Utah border, Short Creek, holds ...

The genetic diversity of 61 colored‐cotton lines, including 40 brown cottons and 21 green cottons, was analyzed based on agronomic traits and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. A total of 344 ...

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan. As soon as the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy on March 23, 2025, ...