Google unveiled an artificial intelligence tool Wednesday that its scientists said would help unravel the mysteries of the human genome -- and could one day lead to new treatments for diseases.

Google DeepMind's new model deciphers how hidden DNA changes drive disease, predicting gene regulation effects with high ...

Researchers have created the first complete map showing how hundreds of mutations in a key cancer gene affect tumor growth.

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

In Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, a protein called tau can pile up inside brain cells and form toxic clumps. Those ...

Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., spent much of a Senate committee hearing dancing around direct answers—except when it came to vaccines, a topic in which ...

Researchers found that paired pathogenic variants can restore protein function rather than make it worse. This phenomenon ...

Findings revealed biological pathways as potential intervention points, and demonstrated in fruit flies potential therapeutic strategies.

On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and businessman named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Americans ...