This photo provided by Emilys Entourage in April 2025 shows Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, who has cystic fibrosis caused by a rare genetic mutation, during a trip to Maine. (Emilys Entourage via AP) ...

Horses possess a rare genetic peculiarity. This adaptation partly explains their exceptional endurance without compromising their cellular health. A team of researchers has identified a mutation in ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC), BC Cancer, Harvard Medical School and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have pinpointed what could be the early genetic origins of ...

Investigators have unveiled for the first time that changes in certain genes affect an aggressive cancer, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), differently depending on genetic ancestry. The ...

An H5N1 bird flu mutation associated with increased infectiousness and disease severity has been found in two cats. Since the beginning of this year, more than 50 cats have been infected with H5N1 ...

For 10% of colorectal cancer patients, hereditary factors play a role, with higher percentages among younger patients.

Many scientific discoveries are serendipitous—the result of chance. Seeing evolution in action in a cheese cave turned out to be exactly that for Benjamin Wolfe, associate professor of biology, and ...

Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body — and can clarify how diseases develop. When you purchase through links on our ...

Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it’s usually to try to identify a disease-causing gene to help guide ...

Co-founded by Jennifer Doudna and Fyodor Urnov, the company intends to simultaneously develop many gene editing treatments ...

Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can’t get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering arduous and exhausting. She has the most common fatal ...