Medicine & TechnologyThrough a multi-step approach, there were 50 Parkinson's disease risk genes yielded. This new discovery would help scientists to understand more about the disease. Read on to know how they come up with the result.
Researchers demonstrated how epigenetic modification can be transmitted from the grandparents to the next generation (grandoffspring). Learn more about this transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in this article.
Scientists are using artificial intelligence (AI) to study the human genome to determine which mutations were favored and which were only hitchhikers. Read the article to learn more.
Biologists provided new insights into parasitic genes that could, later on, help fight certain conditions like cancers and age-related diseases. Read to know more.
A new study gives rare insight into the human likeness at the molecular level suggesting that those who look alike but are unrelated may have shared the same DNA variant. Read the article to learn more.
A lawsuit alleges that state police sought a blood sample of a newborn from the health department to investigate the father’s link to a crime. Lead to know more.
Experts warn celebrities from their obsessed fans who might steal their DNA because it's now easier to do it, especially since genetic paparazzi have increased. Read the article to know more.
A study shows that ‘silent’ genetic mutations are more harmful than neutral. Read and find out how the translation of genetic code helped achieve the finding.
Researchers unveiled competition of human genome sequence, opening the door to medical discoveries in certain conditions. Learn more about this technology.
Researchers revealed how a new DNA test they developed can make a one-time diagnosis of over 50 genetic diseases. Know more about this new medical breakthrough.
University of South Florida genomics program provided scientific tools to assess mental disorders that stemmed from the Rwanda genocide in 1994 among the Tutsi ethnic group.
The World Health Organization expert committee released new guidelines on human genome editing concluding that creating genetically modified babies is still a bad idea, proposing a framework for global governance of the technology.
For the first time, scientists were able to create 3D reconstructions of the faces of three Egyptian mummies using forensic DNA phenotyping, revealing what they would have looked like when they were still alive.