In a new Northwestern Medicine study, scientists have developed a more precise genetic risk score to determine whether a ...

Two analyses presented at the National Society of Genetic Counselors' annual meeting indicate the CPT code change has led to an increase in billable hours.

As the global population grows, producing enough food for everyone has become one of the biggest challenges in agriculture.

Only a week after Beau Friesen was born, his parents knew something was wrong, but two years later, they still don't know ...

Humans have been shaping life for thousands of years through farming, breeding, and selective cultivation. But with modern tools like CRISPR, we can now directly edit DNA itself—rewriting the very ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

Over the next five years, up to 100,000 people in Ontario will be screened for genetic conditions that increase their risk of hereditary cancers and a condition tied to high cholesterol and heart ...

At Mayo Clinic, cardiologists Peter Noseworthy, M.D., and John Giudicessi, M.D., Ph.D., are uncovering the earliest signs of ...

Genealogists use open-source data to build the family tree to find the most recent common ancestors and identify a suspect.

More Canadian research into crop variety development is incorporating gene editing, and one researcher notes that Canada’s ...

Scientists are trying a revolutionary new approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus and other ...

University Health Network’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is partnering with U.S.-based precision health company Helix to launch one of Canada’s “largest population genomics studies.” ...