genetics

CRISPR gene editing. It's gone from an obscure biotech term to a household name in the past few years, in no small part due to a scientist who last year…

Nearly four out of five people represented in human genetic research are of European decent. That’s the result of a recent analysis that also found that…

An international group of scientists and legal scholars are warning that a federal research program called Insect Allies could unintentionally lead to…

There are many private testing services that will decode your DNA, catalog the foreign chemicals in your blood, or identify the bacteria living in and on…

Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are among the nation’s most sought-after summer destinations. They’re also hotspots for Lyme disease. And now, they’re…

Cystic fibrosis is a common genetic disease, relatively speaking. About one in 25 to 30 Caucasians are carriers of a cystic fibrosis mutation. But there…