More than 15,000 women a year who have breast cancer in the UK would benefit from tests that analyse DNA for changes or mutations, a study has suggested. Having a patient’s entire genetic readout ...

One of the most remarkable characteristics of living beings is their ability to pass inherited features from one generation to the next. And one of the greatest of man’s scientific triumphs has been ...

Scientists studying tiny roundworms have uncovered how the secrets of a long life can be passed from parents to their offspring — without changing DNA. The discovery shows that when certain cellular ...

A baby was found to have a rare eye cancer and his sight is expected to be saved thanks to a new screening tool which is being assessed for widespread use. Families across England are taking part in a ...

The introduction of Texas pumas to Florida in the 1990s as part of a genetic rescue may have helped save Florida panthers from extinction, but it also brought some harmful mutations with it along the ...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia and Oxford Biodynamics have developed a high accuracy blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). The ...

Patna Municipal Corporation has launched a city-wide operation to remove all political posters, hoardings, banners, and flags following the enforcement of the model code of conduct for the Bihar ...

It’s the time of year when leading scientists might not want to let any calls go to voicemail. Prizes in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine, established by Swedish industrialist Alfred ...

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In a major advance for biotechnology and bioinformatics, researchers from ETH Zurich have developed MetaGraph, a search engine that enables scientists to rapidly query massive public DNA and RNA ...

Your DNA could hold more clues about your relationship with cannabis than you may think. In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers from the University of California, San Diego and DNA ...