Among the most famous demonstrations of genetic mutations driving infection outcome is severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID ...

Researchers are adding new evidence to the emerging concept that 'silent' or synonymous mutations may have crucial consequences. Their study showed how a synonymous mutation in one gene can ...

We often treat a DNA result like a final, divine verdict. In a time when truth can feel subjective, a laboratory report has become our ultimate anchor. We hand over a cheek swab, wait a week, and ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Testing is essential when confirming a hemophilia diagnosis. The process includes a physical exam and blood-clotting factor ...

Providing patient-centered education and navigation support significantly increases consent rates for genomic testing, making ...

For 10% of colorectal cancer patients, hereditary factors play a role, with higher percentages among younger patients.

More than 70% of people diagnosed with cancer in the United States now survive for five years or more, a milestone experts ...

Cases of subclade K, a mutation of the Influenza A or H3N2 virus, continue to be the most widely-reported. It's not included ...

Engineers at UC San Diego have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the field of pangenomics ...

Though the findings are positive overall, survival increases since the mid-1990s are especially notable for more fatal ...

PanMAN data structures compress pangenomes massively, encode evolutionary histories, and enable scalable analysis of millions of genomes.