One of the most challenging moments in cancer treatment comes when a therapy stops working. In many metastatic cancers, drugs ...

Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving ...

The parents of 7-week-old Dhruvan Gopi were warned he might not survive the night as specialists converged around his crib at ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a protein on the surface of your cells that helps them grow. When the gene that codes for EGFR has a mutation, it affects the way this protein works, causing ...

After decades of intense focus on genetics, the biomedical research community is undergoing a major shift, focusing on a new framework called "exposomics." Similar to the way scientists work to map ...

Days after Tatiana Schlossberg announced that she has terminal cancer, the spotlight is on the warning signs of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, 35, shared the details of ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, recently revealed she was diagnosed with terminal acute myeloid leukemia (AML) due to a rare genetic anomaly. In a ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, revealed her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay. Doctors found acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a rare genetic mutation, making standard ...