EMILEE Joe Napier’s world fell apart when her little boy was diagnosed with one of the world’s rarest brain disorders. Bertie ...

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

Doctors are seeing colon cancer in people in their 20s and 30s. New research suggests it starts in infancy.

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...

Are we reading our dog’s moods right? Does TV really comfort them when we’re away? These pet stories were catnip to us this ...

It’s hard to keep up with all the discoveries made around the world every year in science, but harder still to sort the hype ...

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

A single microscopic change in our DNA can permanently alter how the brain is built, locking in developmental problems that ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Undergoing ultraviolet light sessions is as harmful as exposing yourself to the sun without any sunscreen. To understand why ...

New research finds that indoor tanning raises the risk of developing melanoma by nearly threefold, and alters your DNA.