In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

Researchers at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre have developed a digital phenotype to assist with automatically identifying ...

A large analysis suggests that a multivariable risk assessment tool, called Stockholm3, can detect substantially more ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Medicine is rapidly evolving from statistical, evidence-based approaches to predictive, genotype-directed care, driven by ...

Scientists discover karyoptosis, a new cell death mechanism causing nuclear disintegration in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

Introduction Efficient preventive management of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is ...

Two brothers in Singapore have built a data-encryption company on pure mathematics, betting that a problem no algorithm can ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

For a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma-the most common infant cancer, occurring when early nerve cells grow out of control-the path to treatment isn't simple.

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.