After teasing a new regulatory process for personalized genetic medicines at the end of last year, the FDA today unveiled draft guidance for an approval pathway that could see custom CRISPR therapies, ...

Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacteria which can become a virulent killer in health-care settings among severely ill patients.

In “What We Inherit,” Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko examine the link between genetic myths and social genomics.

Cats develop this subtype more often than humans, giving scientists access to samples, and offering clues to new medicines ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

As the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie continues, legal questions around DNA testing to identify a suspect in Guthrie’s ...

Short sleepers, who make up less than one per cent of the population, spend significantly less time snoozing without any ...

Case Western Reserve University researchers have made a significant breakthrough in understanding Barrett's esophagus, a precancerous condition that dramatically increases the risk of developing ...

Investigations of the genetic basis of coronary artery disease have led to advances in mechanistic insights, therapeutics, prevention, and risk prediction. Indeed, most contemporary medicines for ...

“Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.”—James D. Watson A recent ...

ABSTRACT: Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important oilseed and food legume, yet its productivity is often constrained by environmental variability and the complex nature of yield-related traits.