The genes that could help the world's crops survive drought, heat, and disease probably already exist. But much of this ...

From Mendel’s pea plants to today’s genome mapping, our understanding of genetics has transformed how we see heredity, traits, and evolution. DNA’s code, once mysterious, now reveals a complex ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Genomic data provides evidence for a previously unknown wave of migration, with Indigenous groups living in central and ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

In the largest and longest trial of its kind, 90% of patients receiving an experimental gene therapy for congenital deafness ...

A trio of common amino acids may hold the key to unlocking far more powerful gene therapies. Researchers found that adding ...

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and Goodfire, a San Francisco research startup, say they have used an AI model to predict which genetic mutations cause disease—and, crucially, to explain why—offering a ...

The ability of different genetic variants—changes to one or more building blocks of DNA—to cause disease, and to what extent, has historically been opaque. Geneticist and Crick group leader Greg ...

Salk Institute scientists have developed a biological platform for studying mitochondrial DNA in physiology, adaptation, disease mechanisms, and therapeutic development. Headed by Ronald Evans, PhD, ...