When couples have trouble conceiving a baby or lose a pregnancy, they often undergo routine tests, which can turn up a shock: ...

Researchers are now exploring how different types of repetitive DNA create genome instability and structurally variant chromosomes.

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

Hospitals may soon have a faster option, thanks to a groundbreaking system built in part by Sneha Goenka, an assistant ...

In about one out of every 800 people, two chromosomes fuse together to form an unusual bond. These are known as Robertsonian chromosomes. It's a mystery that has long stumped scientists.

Bacteria have long been a key source of lifesaving antibiotics, but most species cannot be grown in the lab—leaving their ...

Before, it used to take ages to gain understanding of a person’s genetic makeup, but thanks to breakthroughs in high-performance computing, what once required days of waiting for results can now be ...

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MIT researchers have dramatically lowered the error rate of prime editing, a genome-editing technique based on CRISPR. This advance could make it easier to develop gene therapy treatments for a ...

The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so "degraded and contaminated" that ...