A single sperm donor who carries a rare cancer-causing genetic mutation has fathered at least 197 children across 14 ...

How could something known for causing disease make life possible? Scientists reveal that ancient viruses inserted pieces of their genetic code into our ancestors’ DNA. These viral genes helped mammals ...

Some children recover better after traumatic brain injury than others, despite appearing similarly to doctors. Looking at the ...

About 30 children aged 3 to 12 years old and their parents are participating in a new program that uses DNA testing to identify genetic gifts and predict the future. When Director Zhao Mingyou first ...

The accounts are like an early investment fund for children. Parents and others may contribute up to $5,000 a year into the accounts until the child turns 18. An employer may contribute up to $2,500 ...

Daily orange juice has long been sold as a simple breakfast habit, but new research suggests it may be doing far more than ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

There are few hard and fast rules in the study of life, but perhaps the closest we get is the central dogma of molecular biology: DNA is transcribed to RNA, which gets translated into proteins. The ...

We all have quirks that make us unique or even a little odd in others' eyes. Sometimes we pick up these quirks from people we spend a lot of time with or we admire, other times it's something we are ...

In the United States, 1 in every 250 people has inherited a genetic variant that leads to dangerously high cholesterol levels from birth. A new modeling study conducted by researchers at Columbia and ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

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