The past decade has delivered landmark advances in human and medical genomics that shape how we understand disease mechanisms ...

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 ...

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Twenty-two years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, scientists have unveiled the most expansive catalog of human genetic variation ever compiled. Across two new papers published ...

AlphaGenome is a DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction to understand genome function.

In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...

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’ ...

No matter how much they brush their teeth, some people still get more cavities than others, in part because of differences in ...

For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...

By studying genetic data from nearly 140,000 IVF embryos, scientists have with unprecedented detail revealed why fewer than ...