When a wound does not heal properly, it leaves a scar. Similarly, mutations—which are permanent changes to genetic code—are ...

Research shows that where fat is stored impacts cardiometabolic health, with visceral fat (generally around the organs and in ...

You are what you eat, but what happens to those calories after you eat may depend more on your genes than you think.

Analysis of one million diverse genomes yields mutations associated with lower risk of diabetes, heart disease and other ...

A South Korean research team is developing an anticancer technology that selectively targets DNA mutations found only in ...

Every 15 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies from a drug-resistant superbug. A few decades from now, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections threaten to become the leading cause of death worldwide, ...

DNA has to be interpreted by cells. The letters or bases that make up genetic sequences are read in sets of three, and those three-base sequences are known as codons. Every codon encodes for one amino ...

Human cells usually contain two copies of most genes, one of which comes from the mother while the other comes from the father. It's long been thought that usually these two copies, or alleles of ...

Researchers have discovered that a gene linked to congenital heart disease acts like an architect for the heart cell’s DNA.

Acquired DNA mutations found in the SERPINA1 gene can protect liver cells from damage in patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, new research shows. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AD) is a ...

Inherited bone marrow failure syndrome, or IBMFS, describes a group of disorders in which inherited genetic abnormalities ...