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.

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

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 ...

Gout is often blamed on overindulgence in alcohol or unhealthy eating, but research suggests genetics plays a much bigger ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The authors' approach to use genetic code expansion to tag two ALS proteins associated with stress granules has ...

One therapy wey pipo bin once reason as achievement for science fiction don reverse aggressive and incurable blood cancers ...

This year, the researchers announced they had designed two antibiotics to go after superbugs. The AI combined millions of ...

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.

Recent research highlights a newly discovered biological signal related to epigenetic modifications in the blood, particularly DNA methylation, which might improve understanding of children's ...

Scientists discovered a new blood type, but only 3 people on Earth share it. Here's why this discovery matters.

It’s been hypothesized for decades that life on Earth may not have been as “homegrown” as one might think and now, we’re ...

Doctors in the San Francisco Bay Area have blamed the mushroom species for 23 poisoning cases since Nov. 18. One patient has ...