A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or stop disease progression. Research has identified a critical DNA ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

Batten disease is a rare genetic disorder affecting 3 in 100,000 babies in the U.S., causing neurodegeneration, seizures, ...

A new study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in ... 35 or fewer CAG repeats, but people inherited with mutation of 40 or more repeats ...

Parents of children with a rare neurodegenerative disease say they are in disbelief that they could within months lose access ...

Researchers from the Mitochondrial Medicine Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have better characterized a spectrum of what were classically considered discrete mitochondrial DNA ...

Idaho 4th District Judge Steven Hippler ruled that a DNA technique employed by law enforcement ... Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for PEOPLE' s free True Crime newsletter ...

Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...

Researchers from Leicester have uncovered important insights into how people's DNA affects their response to the drug, which will soon be available to smokers through the UK's National Health ...

We host a number of events annually that draw people from all backgrounds and bring ... recently purchased a popular DNA testing kit. I didn’t think that anything would come as a surprise ...

It was very sad that someone actually died that way,” said ... Castro was charged with second-degree murder after DNA testing not available in the 1970s helped identify him nearly 50 years ...