No gene acts alone: interacting variants and protein partnerships can worsen, mask or even rescue disease risk, demanding ...

New research finds that retinal diseases thought to map one-to-one to genetic mutations are more complicated than that.

Dozens of people in the United States have caught bird flu from animals this year, but there's no evidence that the viral disease has spread from one person to another. However, a single mutation in ...

A new single-cell profiling technique has mapped pre-malignant gene mutations and their effects in solid tissues for the ...

For decades, psychiatrists have told patients that conditions like schizophrenia and severe depression arise from a tangled mix of genes and life experience, with no single culprit to blame. Now ...

Genetics is rarely as straightforward as a single gene driving a lone health outcome. But a new study has uncovered what could be a rare exception. Changes to just one gene, called GRIN2A, have now ...

The need to change regulations around gene-editing treatments was endorsed in November by the head of the US Food and Drug ...

New one-dose treatment edits a gene in the liver, disabling the ANGPTL3 protein and significantly lowers cholesterol.

An affordable new BRCA gene test has hit the market, but who should take it? — -- A new genetic testing kit that hits the market today is the most affordable, and arguably one of the simplest, ...