PLEASANTON >> At the IntegenX Inc. headquarters on Stoneridge Drive, employees are hard at work developing upgrades to their product: a small machine that can unravel DNA code in less than two hours.

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A new genetic analysis of people with autism and their relatives has uncovered 18 genes associated with the disorder. People with autism often had dozens of mutations that may have caused their ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In a key advance for the study of depression, a comprehensive scan of human DNA has turned up the apparent hiding places of more than a dozen genes linked to the disorder. “This is a ...

A mechanism for preventing mutation within important genes involves long distance scanning of DNA by a molecular motor protein has been identified by researchers. Because the information within the ...