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In three studies published in Nature today, Australian researchers have made advances in our understanding of how genetic ...

For decades the idea of eugenics has been taboo. Now it is returning in a new commercial guise ...

A new PLOS Computational Biology guide from the Reactome curation team offers eight practical tips for exploring, analyzing ...

Whole-genome sequencing traced livestock-associated MRSA ST398 from German pig farms through slaughter into fermented ...

Existing antibodies that increase dengue virus replication are associated with acute inflammation and limited development of ...

A new study has characterized the "average" human genome, providing key information on normal human genetic variation and genetic disease risk. The researchers conclude that everyone—regardless of ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is marked by unchecked expansion of undifferentiated myeloid cells. Although oncogenic fusions ...

Isaacson argues that who patents, regulates, and profits from gene editing now matters as much as the science, because rewriting human heredity is no longer theoretical.

Skloot holds that HeLa’s public triumph and the Lacks family’s poverty are one story, and that U.S. law still has no clear answer to who owns tissue once it leaves the body.