Learn more about the gene linked to the evolutionary loss of human tails, and how, in rare cases, some people are still born ...
Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...
Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30% ...
Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.
Picture CRISPR-Cas9, a gene editing technology, as a GPS-guided scalpel: gRNA directs the Cas9 enzyme, a protein that cuts ...
There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...
A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...
Research co-led by King's College London and Sidra Medicine, Qatar, has produced the most detailed map to date of large-scale ...
Attention can feel like a fragile thing, especially when your brain struggles to sort signal from noise. Every second, your ...
Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...