A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

The debate between nature and nurture is not new. It centers on the relative contributions of genetic inheritance and ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

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 ...

From Mendel’s pea plants to the molecular magic of DNA replication, genetics is the story of how life’s blueprint is copied and passed on. Understanding how DNA stores, duplicates, and sometimes ...

After a cancer diagnosis, patients often have many questions, not only about their treatment but also about what the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

UAB genetic counseling students partnered with Lister Hill Library to bring an interactive H.E.A.L.T.H. Lab to Alabaster, ...

Affordable at-home DNA testing is revealing unexpected family relationships that can legally alter inheritance outcomes in Pennsylvania. Under intestacy laws and certain will provisions, proven ...