Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence complex traits in humans at a scale previously impossible.

After more than 50 years of research, scientists still don't know exactly what causes autism. But the data make clear that ...

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

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers, identified ...

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

Lindberg had Parkinson’s disease, the neurologist said, with all the classic symptoms. PD—as the scientists she would meet ...

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

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins.