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Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have narrowed down the list of specific genes responsible for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

Scientists have demonstrated a way to edit the genome of disease-carrying mosquitoes that brings us closer to suppressing them on a continental scale.

Analyzing a rare genetic mutation in a child helped researchers discover how the immune system responds to common cold viruses.

The research, which generated over 20 million pieces of data, has found 360 new disease models and provides 28,406 new descriptions of the genes’ effects on mouse biology and disease.

The University of Texas at Arlington researchers use supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to study snake evolution, unique traits.

Amid the incredible diversity of living things on our planet, there is a common theme. Organisms need to acquire new genes, or change the functions of existing genes, in order to adapt and survive.

Stanford scientists have used a next-generation technology called long-read sequencing to diagnose a patient’s rare genetic condition that current technology failed to diagnose.

A new analysis shows that individuals with high levels of genetic variation and elevated exposure to ozone in the environment are at an even higher risk for developing autism than would be expected by adding the two risk factors together.

DvSnf7 dsRNA is an unusual insecticide. You don’t spray it on crops. Instead, you encode instructions for manufacturing it in the DNA of the crop itself.

Oncomine Dx Target Test returns results in days, helping physicians rapidly develop treatment plans for the most common form of lung cancer.