People often remark that allergies run in their family, but the genetic causes have remained unclear. Previous food allergy ...

New technological advancements have allowed us to look at the entire human genome. The genome is the complete set of genetic information encoded in the DNA. Human DNA has around three billion letters ...

Genetic genealogy uses familial DNA to trace evidence back to suspects, and now investigators are using it in the search for ...

Rare genetic disorders affect more than 300 million people worldwide, with children making up 70% of those impacted, according to EURORDIS. These conditions often go undiagnosed for years due to ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic contributions to behaviors ranging from mental illnesses to educational attainment to political affiliation—can ...

The history of genomics has long been a story of reading a book where only every fiftieth page made sense. While the Human Genome Project gave us the full sequence of human DNA over two decades ago, ...

New technological advancements have allowed scientists to look at the entire human genome. But what are genomics, and why is it relevant? Trouble in paradise? Trump’s free-bus broadside muddles ...