Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2 nd in the open-access journal ...

Researchers have created an artificial intelligence model that can identify which mutations in human proteins are most likely ...

Using a massive exome sequencing database made available through the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC), the international research team identified around 7.4 million genetic variants, providing ...

A watercolor artist’s interpretation of the relationship between the human genome and gut mycobiome. Created by Amy Bean, watercolor journalist and mom of first author Emily Van Syoc. Clinicians’ ...

“Precision editing technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 are incredibly promising as therapies,” geneticist Daniel MacArthur of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT tells The Scientist in an email. “They’re ...

Next-generation sequencing technologies have catapulted the field of genomics back into the spotlight thanks to fast, accurate, and historically low-cost sequencing methods. As of today, the cost of ...

Scientists discovered 11 DNA locations linked to impatience and hundreds of health conditions like addiction and chronic pain.

“The important part of the work is the large number of [exomes],” Stephen Scherer, who studies variation in the human genome at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, Canada, ...

Carrots are a good source of beta-carotene, which is a precursor of vitamin A. But to get the full health benefits of this superfood, you need an active enzyme to produce this vitamin. Late-onset ...