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

Study Showcases Certain Neanderthal Gene Variants Make an Individual More Susceptible to Autism Neanderthals may have vanished a long time ago, but they continue to startle scientists with discoveries ...

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

At the surface, the immune response to a flu virus is simple. Some cells recognize the pathogen and send a signal to the ...

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

A new study in Science uses ancient and modern DNA to tell the Qimmeq’s story. It’s a story not just about dogs, but also ...

Free genetic testing kits available for Evanston residents to trace their family roots and discover their ancestry.

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

T-bet is a transcription factor, one of the control proteins in the cell nucleus that can turn specific groups of genes on ...

Replacing defective microglia can halt ALSP—a fatal neurodegenerative disease—in mice and humans, offering hope for broader brain therapies.

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