Inbreeding of dogs can lead to blindness, deafness, and genetic diseases. Learn how it impacts generations of dogs and what ...

Inside a large walk-in refrigerator on the Urbana-Champaign campus, thousands of envelopes hold the fate of global food security, not to mention a significant portion of the ...

Study results advance understanding of how human cells evolved and could help point to new solutions for patients with rare genetic diseases.

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

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.

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

Scientists at UC Davis discovered a small genetic difference that could explain why humans are more prone to certain cancers ...

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that ...

For the first time, scientists have systematically studied the genetic effects of chemotherapy on healthy tissues.

CRISPR-based gene editing holds great promise, but off-target effects remain a major concern, especially across diverse genetic backgrounds. A new study presents a web-based tool that enhances ...

Paraphase – a computational tool that accurately resolves and analyzes paralogous genes – unlocks the difficult-to-analyze ...

Genome editing technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 have transformed biology, medicine, and agriculture, but concerns remain about ...