Researchers say a new AI system can identify disease-causing mutations and explain their biological effects, potentially ...

New research suggests that autoimmune diseases may be driven by DNA mutations in immune cells that remove the natural brakes ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these mutations cause serious diseases that pass down only through mothers. They ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

A seminal study from researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and their collaborators in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and Iceland has uncovered a new genetic ...

In 2025, baby KJ Muldoon became the first person to receive a personalized gene editing treatment, which likely saved his ...

Hello Health Rounds readers. Today we feature a pair of studies that took a deeper dive into the effects of GLP-1 drugs being ...

You probably have a member of your family that you're not related to by blood—a step-parent, an adopted cousin, your mom's ...

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of ...

Humans have about 3 billion DNA bases in their genetic makeup. However, most of it does not encode for protein.

Margaret Worthington, associate professor in the Department of Horticulture and director of the Fruit Breeding Program for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, joined colleagues in publishing ...