Purpose: The aim of this tutorial is to show how the rise of molecular technologies and analytical methods in human genetics yields exciting new ...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

A genomics firm saying they can help parents with “genetic optimization” of their embryos is tone-deaf Silicon Valley marketing trampling over legitimate science. Parents should be wary

Over 30 international studies are exploring newborn sequencing (NBSeq) to expand the range of genetic disorders included in newborn screening. Substantial variability in gene selection across programs...

Treatment seems to have been effective, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied.

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Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their secrets

A promising clinical trial marks another milestone for the CRISPR gene editor

Synthetic biologists have the know-how and ambition to retool whole genomes. But the hidden complexity of biological systems continues to surprise them.

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) launched the Billion Cells Project, an effort to generate an unprecedented one billion cell dataset...

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Geneticist Sir Paul Nurse on the amazing breakthroughs that followed the discovery of DNA - and how it directly impacted his own family.

A metagenome-informed metaproteomics approach unravels the interplay between the host, gut microbiome, and diet in animal models as well as in human cohorts and identifies disease biomarkers of dysbio...

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NVIDIA today announced new partnerships to transform the $10 trillion healthcare and life sciences industry by accelerating drug discovery, enhancing genomic research and pioneering advanced healthcar...

An ambitious collaboration of African researchers, non-profit organisations, and the private sector seeks to accelerate genomic research on the continent.

It’s easy to forget that we live in an age of medical wonders. Cancer tumors can be slowed or shrunk in ways previous generations couldn’t imagine, with everything from pills to genetically engineered...

What subjects have past winners studied? What age were they when they won? Where do they live? Nature crunched the data on every science prizewinner to find out.

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The inherent similarities between natural language and biological sequences have inspired the use of large language models in genomics, but current models struggle to incorporate chromatin interaction...

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IntroductionThe adverse health effects of sugar-sweetened beverage intake are well-established, but the implications of overall added sugar intake remain unc...

Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.

AbstractSummary. Advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies and decreasing costs have fueled the identification of small genetic variants (suc

A fraud buster, a nuclear-clock maker and a virus hunter. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for this year’s Nature’s 10.