Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

In Destiny’s Child No Longer: Rewriting Genetic Fate, we envisioned a world where every newborn would be screened for genetic risks. We see a future in which the randomness of genetic inheritance ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

A new study into the APOE gene suggests two variants may influence Alzheimer's and dementia risk more than previously thought.