The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

Genetic records from more than 20,000 children in the United States, collected to understand how young brains grow and how ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...

When two defective gene variants combine, normal protein function can sometimes be restored.

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

New research finds that retinal diseases thought to map one-to-one to genetic mutations are more complicated than that.

Sometimes, in genetics, two wrongs do make a right. A research team has recently shown that two harmful genetic variants, ...

A new gene editor takes advantage of CRISPR-associated proteins to insert whole genes into the genome, scientists report. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual ...