In recent years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved more than a dozen gene-editing and cell-based therapies. We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined ...

A half-century has passed since a brash, impatient and not particularly generous-minded young American biologist named James Dewey Watson arranged some cardboard cutouts at a table in an English ...

When Mary-Claire King embarked on a painstaking 17-year-long hunt for a gene linked to breast cancer, she had no inkling that its discovery would be saving lives some three decades later. King, an ...

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation ...

The tests, or screenings, are administered to determine if a person’s DNA contains a gene identified as causing a specific disease, such as breast cancer, or condition, such as birth defects. But ...