Research shows germline genetic testing — testing for a cancer risk gene you may have inherited — can save lives. Not just a patient’s, but their family members, as well. Hereditary Cancer Awareness ...

Stanford researchers and their collaborators have revealed a new device that could change the way scientists conduct gene-editing experiments. The device, CRISPR-GPT, is an artificial intelligence lab ...

In one of the first demonstrations of the impact of last year’s Loper Supreme Court decision on challenges to agency authority, a judge ruled that the FDA does not have authority to regulate tests ...

After 34 years, the Austin Police Department announced Friday it linked a suspect to the murder of four girls who were found inside a burning business in 1991. The incident was later known as the ...

When evidence is collected at a Hennepin County crime scene, it ends up in a laboratory in downtown Minneapolis, where in just a few minutes, analysts can identify blood on a t-shirt.

The US District Court for the District of Delaware announced the settlement this week, ending the dispute, which originated as a patent infringement suit by Invitae against Natera.

Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that testing for lipoprotein(a)—a genetic risk factor for heart disease—remains uncommon in the United States, despite ...

The company recently published a study showing that elemental patterns in single strands of hair are different in patients with ALS.

The first time the seemingly healthy woman gave birth, she went into heart failure. She recovered and went on to deliver her second child a few years later. Doctors cleared the woman to go home with ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will rescind a rule that tightened regulations for clinical laboratories and gave the agency more oversight of diagnostic tests developed by them, a document on ...

New research shows that wherever human populations mix, their languages blend as well ...