Extreme values for cholesterol, glucose, and height are driven by rare, high-impact genetic variants rather than polygenic ...

China's Ministry of Science and Technology issued ethical guidelines for human genetic data research on Monday, aiming to ...

A new computational tool called MARRVEL-MCP helps researchers move toward genetic diagnoses more efficiently by analyzing and ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, and today we can sequence thousands of human genomes to identify these ...

Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster and cheaper.

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

A decades-long search to identify a mysterious blood antigen has led researchers to a hidden genetic difference found in a ...

Scientists can now extract ancient human DNA directly from cave dirt, revolutionizing archaeology. This breakthrough bypasses ...

An international team led by University of Manchester scientists has created the most detailed picture yet of how genetic differences shape the way the human eye works. The breakthrough could help ...

A joint team of Chinese and Indonesian scientists has used ancient genome data to reconstruct the genetic history of ...