At Frederick Health, a growing precision medicine program uses genetic technology to diagnose and treat conditions such as cancer and heart disease. Pharmacogenomics, ...

A team that includes Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists has unlocked some of the secrets of corn DNA, revealing how ...

Genetic technologies may exacerbate productivity gaps in agriculture, disadvantaging small farmers, especially in developing countries, who cannot access or afford genetically modified seeds.

A functional analysis study was conducted on ATM genes that have a high risk of cancer and are closely related to the ...

As predicted the era of universal newborn genomic screening is dawning. The UK and Florida are leading the way.

These concerns were heard in the genetic-testing industry. A number of popular companies, including Ancestry and 23andMe, recently committed to a new set of best practices governing how and when ...

Rochman, a former Time magazine health and medicine columnist, introduces and explains these tools in her book “The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids ...

A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it. A Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly engineered with a gene drive ...

As a journalist specializing in genetic engineering—the weirder the better—I had a different fear. A CRISPR baby would be a story of the century, and I worried some other journalist would get ...

The most immediate risks from genetic technologies do not come from the production of scary new weapons; they instead come from nefarious actors—including governments— obtaining information and ...