For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

BACKGROUND: Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to cardiomyocytes is a potentially curative strategy for ischemic heart ...

The Supreme Court punted on Friday in a major legal challenge to Louisiana’s long-litigated congressional map, taking the unusual step of holding the case over for a second term.

Nearly 25 years after scientists completed a draft human genome sequence, many of its 3.1 billion letters remain a puzzle. The 98% of the genome that is not made of protein-coding genes — but ...

Although robot-assisted diagnosis and minimally invasive surgery (MIS) brings distinct benefits, deficient multi-dimensional force feedback remains a noteworthy limitation and challenge in MIS. Aiming ...

Every baby born in the UK will have their DNA mapped within a decade as part of a radical overhaul of the NHS designed to predict and prevent disease before it strikes.