Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by ...

An international research team, led by Shinghua Ding at the University of Missouri, has identified a previously unknown ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic elements that drive the rapid development of marsupials' facial features.

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by ...

The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, also moved the needle. Scientists had successfully ...

Summer McKesson’s quest for answers to her medical condition would unearth a family secret – and a doctor’s decades-old ...

MPN-U patients exhibit lower platelet counts and higher venous thrombosis rates compared to ET, with thrombosis often ...

Summer McKesson, 43, learned about her unknown half-siblings though DNA testing after struggling with blot clots and having ...

Imagine asking a search engine platform questions about your health and getting responses based on your own DNA. That's ...

New research helps explain why disease-associated genetic variants can lead to variable clinical outcomes, influenced both by the patterns of secondary variants, or genetic background, and by how ...