In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a ...

New study into ‘heritability’ shows that 50% of the variation in human lifespan could be down to genetics ...

The past decade has delivered landmark advances in human and medical genomics that shape how we understand disease mechanisms ...

Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2 nd in the open-access journal ...

AlphaGenome is a DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction to understand genome function.

No matter how much they brush their teeth, some people still get more cavities than others, in part because of differences in ...

Twenty-two years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, scientists have unveiled the most expansive catalog of human genetic variation ever compiled. Across two new papers published ...

Using single-cell epigenomic profiling of immune cells from 110 individuals, researchers show that genetic variation and ...

For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...