A new generation of artificial intelligence is starting to read the human genome with a fluency that would have sounded like science fiction a decade ago. Instead of scanning DNA for one mutation at a ...

A combination of genetic tests for a "very complex" blood cancer could accurately predict if the disease is likely to return within 18 months of treatment, a study has found. This method picks up ...

Newcastle University scientists say the "revolution" could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time fix ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When it came time to start a family, Sarah Elizabeth Orlando, 33, knew she would go about it differently.

A Mayo Clinic research team that recently announced a breakthrough in ways to research amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease) and an increasingly frequent type of dementia has won ...

Patients reveal persistent gaps in genetic testing, diagnosis, and clinical trial access—and implications for advancing ...

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid for genetic testing in an apparent bid to harness his own genetic material for ...

Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have developed a targeted genetic test to improve diagnosis for X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP), a rare and disabling ...

When it came time to start a family, Sarah Elizabeth Orlando, 33, knew she would go about it differently. Before she was born, an in-utero amniocentesis had confirmed she carried the gene for fragile ...

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time ...