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

The 14-day limit on scientific study of children conceived in vitro is already abhorrent, and any attempt to extend it should ...

Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

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Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...