The children of men exposed to radiation following the Chernobyl nuclear reactor incident in 1986 show specific patterns of DNA mutations, providing evidence that radiation-induced changes in sperm can affect offspring...
A novel artificial intelligence tool has been developed to predict the molecular and regulatory effects of genetic variants relevant to health and disease...
The creation of synthetic human genomes is being investigated in a £10 million Wellcome funded project...
The functions of over 20,000 human genes are described in a new scientific database...
Single-nucleotide differences in a DNA sequence that are associated with an inherited cancer risk have been identified through a large-scale screening study...
Dr Philip Ball takes us on a 50-minute ride through the answers biologists have found to the lifelong question 'what life is and how it works'...
Genome editing has been successfully used to treat a serious liver disease in fetal mice while still in-utero...
Scientists have taken the most detailed images yet of an enzyme working its way along a strand of DNA, revealing how it reads the genetic code...
A newly identified genetic mutation causes members of an Italian family to be unable to feel pain and could lead to the development of new painkillers, research suggests...
The Darwin lecture held at the UK's Royal Society of Medicine in London, and jointly organised with the Linnean Society, gives an annual look at topics in science and medicine....
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