Humans contain multitudes. Each person on the planet contains enough DNA to stretch to Pluto—several times. Studying how all this genetic material works, and especially how genes influence human ...

Genetic ancestry is a concept that has long captured people’s imaginations. It’s no surprise that it’s been turned into a booming industry by companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com. Customers of ...

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Scientists have discovered genetic clues to the cause of restless leg syndrome, a condition common among older adults. The discovery could help identify those individuals at greatest risk of the ...

If you’re looking for Sriram Sankararaman, chances are he’s absorbed in a screen, examining the genetic markers of a small group of hitherto unknown early humans who lived in West Africa some 600,000 ...

Opioid misuse and specifically opioid use disorder (OUD), continues to represent a significant U.S. public health threat, with more than 6 million Americans aged 12 and older meeting the criteria for ...

In 2020, Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, CRISPR-Cas9, a method for genome editing. Often referred to as “molecular scissors,” CRISPR cuts DNA at specific locations that ...

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) convened nephrologists, genetic counselors, researchers, patients, advocates, and other clinicians in Dallas, TX for the Genetics in Kidney Health Summit held ...

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them. Tasha, the O-Gene.Credit...PBH Images, via Alamy Supported by By Emily ...

Studying how genes influence human behavior is an enormously complicated undertaking. Socio-genomicists are harnessing massive banks of genetic data and complex data science analysis techniques to ...