It's one of medicine's biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies. Autoimmune diseases affect ...

Researchers from the Center for Precision Psychiatry at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital have discovered ...

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

In recent years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved more than a dozen gene-editing and cell-based therapies. We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined ...

Scientists have long thought of DNA as an instruction manual written in the four- chemical bases—A, C, T, and G—that make up the genetic code. The prevailing belief was that by decoding these ...

There is a lack of awareness regarding genetic counselling. However, did you know that genetic counselling before pregnancy helps the would-be parents understand potential risks, make informed ...

By uniting three forms of genetic testing, Northwestern researchers can now predict heart rhythm disorders with far greater precision.

Vaccines that resemble viruses generally produce a stronger immune response, while mRNA versions are much quicker and cheaper to make. Now we are getting the best of both worlds, in the form of mRNA ...

TikTok couple Matt and Abby Howard will not be disclosing the details of their baby’s health prior to their pregnancy loss. “I think we’re gonna keep all of her specific medical stuff private, like we ...

Earlier this month, in the journal Nature, scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge published a study I can’t stop thinking about. It was to do with sperm – not the kind of subject ...

In context: Thanks to improvements in DNA sequencing techniques, the number of public repositories containing genetic data is growing at a significant pace. Zurich researchers have been working on a ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable. From banking services ...