From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the 'dark genome' that are responsible for controlling how cells sense and respond to the ...

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In the field of biomedicine and public health, continuous viral mutation and evolution may enable viruses to cross species ...

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) arises from defective blood stem cells that progressively lose their normal functions.

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism's cause—a ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations can give us clues to the ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

European fertility clinics used cancer-causing sperm for 17 years, prompting urgent calls for genetic screening reforms and ...

Over the last decade, the number of cell and gene therapy clinical trials has more than tripled. In this article, several ...

In addition to decoding life’s building blocks, AI is designing new ones. Scientists have used generative AI to build ...