Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 100 babies born each year. One of the ...

Deep learning approaches have transformed how scientists predict the activity and function of DNA sequences in the genome. A ...

New structural variation sequencing reads long stretches of fetal DNA to pinpoint duplications, flips, and rearrangements, ...

John Pumphrey was still a boy when he enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777. After archaeologists discovered his remains, a genetic genealogy analysis identified 20,000 DNA matches for living relat ...

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new way to add large pieces of ...

It's one thing to have blood, semen or saliva and a potential suspect identified against whom to compare it. A DNA test would ...

Genetic differences play a vital role in determining how cancerous tumours develop and evolve, helping to explain why some people get the disease while others do not, according to a new study ...

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit, working with the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s Office and ...

Scientists expected SuperAgers might simply inherit fewer Alzheimer’s-related risks, but their genes looked much like those ...

I was one of the first to spit into a test tube, giving up my DNA forever to learn more about my health and heredity. You know, the ones that promise to connect you with distant relatives you didn’t ...