A new light-based sensor can spot incredibly tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood, raising the possibility of earlier and simpler cancer detection. The technology merges DNA nanotechnology, ...

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 ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

Study identified numerous influential “hub genes” that offer promising new targets for early detection and therapeutic intervention.

Runners stripped down to their skivvies and hit the streets of Westport on Saturday for the 12th annual Cupid’s Undie Run, raising money and awareness for neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that ...

GENA highlights how AI and genomic intelligence transform rare disease identification, speeding diagnosis and improving ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton has yielded the oldest known genome of the bacterium behind syphilis, revealing a lineage unlike ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders.

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...

New research maps genetic “hotspots” for hemochromatosis, revealing uneven risk and possible underdiagnosis across the UK and Ireland.

A rare but serious clotting disorder linked to certain COVID-19 vaccines and natural adenovirus infections has puzzled scientists for years.