Northeastern University researchers used an original machine learning tool to predict how genetic mutations cause a rare ...

Blood cancers such as leukemia are caused by genetic changes in the blood-forming stem cells of the bone marrow. Scientists ...

A man in Washington has been diagnosed with a strain of the bird flu that’s never been detected in humans before. The ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child ...

On November 13, Spain's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food imposed the confinement of all free-range poultry farms ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what's possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

In 2021, a study found that redheads respond more effectively to opioid pain medications, requiring lower doses, also due to ...

Understanding how bone marrow produces blood–and how this whole process can fail–is critical to fighting blood cancers and ...

The United States may be heading into its second severe flu season in a row, driven by a mutated strain called subclade K ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating cause of memory loss and cognitive decline, for which no curative treatment is ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what's possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by ...