Inheriting a mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 puts you at higher risk of breast, prostate, ovarian and pancreatic cancer. Genetic ...

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Molluscum contagiosum virus, the poxvirus behind a common childhood skin infection, carries two copies of a human gene that ...

A rare genetic mutation that can lead to heart failure and sudden cardiac death may be more common in West Michigan than many ...

Cornell researchers confirm first cases of Marfan syndrome in domestic cat siblings Gary and Shaggy, revealing key genetic ...

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Every pill that survives the journey from the stomach into the bloodstream owes much of its success to a single molecular ...

The human genome is an easy place to get lost. Only 2% of its three billion letters encode proteins, and the rest is diabolically hard to decipher. An artificial-intelligence-generated ‘atlas’ of the ...

Harvard researchers and biotech firms are testing treatments that could one day let people live far longer and healthier ...

Scientists have found a human gene lurking in a virus that causes skin infections. It may be using our own DNA to infect us.