The era of digital twins offers a future where deep biology, AI and real-world data combine to make medicine more personal, ...

Researchers have found that nearly three-quarters of the population carry newly identified genetic elements called Inocles, which may influence oral health, immunity, and cancer risk. Researchers at t ...

At WIRED Health 2025, Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui and genomics pioneer George Church laid out their view of the future of ...

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in ...

The Earth BioGenome Project is racing to sequence the DNA of life, building a global genome library to protect biodiversity.

From the mighty blue whale to the humble baker’s yeast, scientists have barely begun to understand the vast genetic diversity ...

An unprecedented effort to sequence the genomes of 150,000 eukaryotic species through inclusive global collaboration.

The patient returned from travel to El Salvador, officials said. The U.S. has confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating parasite in a human, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on ...

Translocations are chromosomal "cut and paste" errors that drive many lymphomas, a type of blood cancer and the sixth most common form of cancer overall. This includes mantle cell lymphoma, a rare but ...

In 1996, Leslie Gordon, a biologist and a pediatrics resident at a hospital in Rhode Island, gave birth to a son, Sam. For a few months, Sam seemed healthy. But Gordon and her husband, a pediatric ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...