Tinkering with the genetic code of a living human is risky. The post Gene Therapy Causes Patient to Grow Alarming Tumor ...

Almost 1,500 genes have been implicated in intellectual disabilities; yet for most people with such disabilities, genetic causes remain unknown. Perhaps this is in part because geneticists have been ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

Changes in non-coding DNA sequences make all the difference.

A long-overlooked stretch of the human genome appears to play a distinct role in shaping the social and stereotypic ...

A new study identifies PTCHD1-AS as a key non-coding gene that shapes social and repetitive behaviors in autism without affecting cognition.

New gene link: Scientists found PTCHD1-AS, a non-coding gene on the X chromosome, tied to social and repetitive behaviors in autism. Unique impact: The gene affects behavior without altering learning ...

Biologists have long puzzled over why organisms with similar numbers of protein-coding genes can differ so dramatically in ...

Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test these hypotheses, a team from Columbia and Harvard decided to see if they could ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and others have identified a neurodevelopmental disorder, caused by mutations in a single gene, that affects tens of thousands of people ...