New research shows that the genetic structure of the French Canadian population was encoded within its genealogy.

Researchers have identified several new genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease unique to Ashkenazi Jews.

Genetic risk information could one day enhance prevention and treatment of substance use, including alcohol use disorder, say researchers.

Genetics expert Jean Bennett explains how gene therapy is being used to treat certain forms of inherited blindness.

The United States Food and Drug Administration has authorized gene-edited pigs entrance into the food chain for human consumption.

An appreciation for the moths that chomp holes in your clothes. They eat the inedible, occupy the uninhabitable and overcome every evolutionary obstacle in their way.

Scientific breakthroughs will enable exploration of Earth’s biochemical past, with hopes of discovering new therapeutic molecules.

Researchers are using genetic information from western chimpanzees in Guinea to evaluate the effects of mining on the endangered species.

Following the controversial births of the first gene-edited babies, a major focus of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing was responsible use of CRISPR.

A genetic risk factor found almost exclusively in people of at least partial African ancestry boosts risk of Alzheimer's disease—but only sometimes.