Few areas of medicine generate as much fascination, hope, hype, and confusion as genetics. Just over two decades ago, ...

Nadine and David Lipworth have devoted their lives to finding treatment that will restore the daughter they knew.

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

Scientists have discovered a rare genetic condition which causes people to age at a much faster rate - and could help develop age reversal medicines. Originally published on talker.news, part of the ...

The AI conversation is still too narrowly framed. Most debates assume intelligence is fundamentally computational, that ...

A team of researchers at the University of Warwick and Monash University has solved a puzzle that has stumped drug developers ...

Unlike computer code that sits on a device and does what it's told, lab-engineered genes can multiply on their own. While ...

Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated with illnesses such as sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis. The most ...

When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks left – but then she was ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...