Michael Snyder is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics at Stanford University. He speaks with Srijana Mitra Das at ...

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.

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

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

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

So, even via the more modest predictions, people will be able to double their longevity. When you reach 100 years old, you ...

“It turns out the mid-40s is a time of dramatic change, as is the early 60s,” said study senior author Michael Snyder, PhD, ...

It’s no secret that certain foods give off certain scents, but the way they interact with the gut, skin and other parts of the body can also change people's body odor. Developing research from Europe ...

From idea, to lab, to clinic, to approval—it's a long and expensive process to bring a drug to market. It also rarely succeeds.

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

New research links America's most popular cooking oil to obesity through metabolic pathways that convert fatty acids into ...