In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has ...

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

The discovery may explain why cutting edge CAR T-cell therapy has managed to revolutionized treatment for blood cancer but ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

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

A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Autism has at least four subtypes, an analysis of more than 5,000 children’s genes, traits and developmental trajectories has ...

Scientists have found 473 human genes that behave like on/off switches, revealing links to cancer, immune conditions, and ...

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

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) is a progressive neurological disease with an ...