One of the most revolutionary tools in cutting-edge medicine is a molecular scalpel so precise that it can modify defective ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now ...

New research suggests that education can raise IQ by up to 15 points—even among identical twins—challenging determinism and revealing intelligence to be more malleable than we once believed.

Deep inside the body, a silent and slow-growing problem can start. In about 1 in 5 older adults, a small group of mutated ...

A new tool developed at ETH Zurich, MetaGraph, allows scientists to search through vast public DNA and RNA databases in seconds — like a “Google for DNA.” DNA sequencing has transformed biomedical ...

By examining genomic variation more closely, scientists can now identify new disease connections with greater speed and accuracy. For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can ...

A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their ...

Understanding the interaction between immune cells and cancer cells has important implications for cancer immunotherapies, ...

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Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana's groundbreaking work on the genetic code, deciphering how DNA sequences translate to ...

Every biotech software engineer needs a handle on at least one or two languages. Here’s a quick run-down that’s pretty ...

Artificial intelligence could be a valuable tool for detecting emerging diseases earlier, researchers from five European ...