Gene therapy

Some chemicals may leave people vulnerable to diseases like cancer and diabetes, not by mutating genes but by turning them off or on at the wrong time

Small changes to DNA that were once considered innocuous enough to be ignored are proving to be important in human diseases, evolution and biotechnology

When mice are exposed to enriched environments, their offspring can overcome genetic defects that impair long-term memory.

Contrary to popular belief, humans continue to evolve. Our bodies and brains are not the same as our ancestors' were—or as our descendants' will be

A new genetic test claims to reveal a child's athletic predispositions. But what do genes really tell us about sports talent?

Once little more than a futile hope, some restoration of the injured spinal cord is beginning to seem feasible

What new Howard Hughes Medical Institute president Robert Tijan said about the activities of our genes in 1995: They are tightly regulated by elaborate complexes of proteins that assemble on DNA. Perturbations in the normal operation of these assemblies can lead to disease

Two genes that up the risk of IBD in kids offer new therapy targets

Physiologist Lee Sweeney has been asked to dope an entire junior college football team, but his day job is studying age-related muscle decline

New study confirms importance of early behavioral intervention in treating the disorder

Resurrected "jumping gene" could deliver DNA

New research shows diet and exercise may change how genes act