The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. It’s only December, but the Supreme ...

The code of life is now editable and the question humanity must answer in the 2020s is not whether we can rewrite it—but whether we should, and for whom.

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

The developmental period is a critical window during which environmental cues interact with the genome to shape lifelong trajectories of health and disease.

A Philadelphia-area infant named Baby KJ made international headlines after doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine successfully treated his rare, life-threatening liver ...

Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.

(THE CONVERSATION) A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain injuries at the cellular level, ...

The NBDL represents a transition from observing nature as something external to something that is molecularly intimate.

A groundbreaking new treatment using genome-edited immune cells, developed by scientists at UCL (University College London) ...

This valuable study provides solid evidence for deficits in aversive taste learning and taste coding in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorders. Specifically, the authors found that Shank3 knockout ...

A large Mayo Clinic study shows that current guidelines fail to detect nearly 90% of people with familial ...