Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

Friedreich’s ataxia is a genetic disorder that causes progressive damage to the nervous system and brain, leading to a loss ...

Every December, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) publishes the number of animals used or killed for scientific ...

The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study ...

A sperm donor with a rare genetic mutation linked to an increased risk of developing cancer fathered at least 197 children across Europe, some of whom have already died from the disease, according to ...

A new study has revealed that a single genetic mutation, found in all modern humans but absent in Neanderthals and Denisovans, could have played a role in the evolution of speech and language. The ...

A decade ago, scientists were chasing a different solution. Instead of editing the genes of pigs to make their organs ...