The test included a question surrounding a 'pimp walk' gene attributed to Black students. A high school teacher in Sacramento, California, faces backlash for a racist and discriminatory biology test.

How genes make you who you are -- Your genes, your soul? -- The oracle at 23andme: Genetic testing and disease -- Born this way: Thinking about gender and sexual orientation -- Race and ancestry: How ...

Twenty years after DNA fingerprints were first admitted by American courts as a way to link suspects to crime scenes, a new and very different class of genetic test is approaching the bench. Rather ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to increased knowledge about gene regulation in human cells. How genes are turned on ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to design thousands of new DNA switches that can precisely control the expression of a gene in different cell types. Their new approach opens the ...

The Human Genome Project changed everything. A map of the entire human sequence of DNA was the starting point for an enormous number of discoveries, from disease genes to how humans evolved. But DNA ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have revealed how spatial distance between specific regions of DNA is linked to bursts of gene activity. Using advanced cell imaging techniques and computer modeling, ...