The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise ...

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

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

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far ...

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

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

Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely ...

Screen-centric lifestyles may be influencing human evolution through impacts on cognition, sleep, reproduction, and the microbiome, reshaping natural selection.

India offers a treasure trove of genetic data for AI-enabled researchers to develop therapies neglected by commercial ...

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

Using brain gene expression maps from the Allen Human Brain Atlas, the researchers tested the degree to which Alzheimer’s risk genes explain the patterns of both actual and residual tau. This allowed ...