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 ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain ...

Scientists in Japan have used gene-editing technology to remove the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, at least ...

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

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

A core question in evolutionary biology is how mutation and selection adapt and constrain species to specialized habitats. We sequenced the genome of the sand rat, a desert rodent susceptible to ...