Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

Despite decades of chasing leads, investigators had been unable to identify the victim of a 1992 homicide on the North Side.

A new Alzheimer's study has produced a first-of-its-kind genetic map, which could provide vital insights into the ...

The rise of gene editing forces regulators to confront a difficult question: How to protect fair play in the age of genomic medicine.

For more than a century, scientists and conservationists have tried to bring back the American chestnut, a tree once so ...

Using DNA-based predictions, researchers show how blight-resistant trees can retain the growth and forest role of the iconic American chestnut.

Study identified numerous influential “hub genes” that offer promising new targets for early detection and therapeutic intervention.

Debra Ann Bogan didn’t know where her younger sister ended up when she disappeared from their hometown of Harrisonburg, ...

Scientists have created the most detailed maps yet of how genes control one another inside the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Using a powerful new AI-based system called SIGNET, the team ...

One of the new DNA-binding proteins was tested in a medical diagnostic method known as loop-mediated isothermal amplification ...

Mitochondria possess their own mRNA translation system, mediated by specialized mitoribosomes. Dysregulation of mitochondrial translation disrupts metabolic homeostasis and is linked to various ...