Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Deep inside your nervous system, a tiny fault in how cells make energy can quietly change the course of a life. That hidden ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Tiny structures inside your cells keep your body alive by turning food into fuel. These structures, called mitochondria, ...

A new study suggests that soybean oil may play a direct role in promoting obesity, and the effect appears tied to how the ...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has teamed up with Tessera Therapeutics to develop and commercialise Tessera’s rare disease in vivo ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...