Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have uncovered genetic distinctions between human hearts and those of other primates.

Inside every cell, inside every nucleus, your continued existence depends on an incredibly complicated dance. Proteins are ...

Tarazona-Santos, who himself has Indigenous ancestry, is worried about the dearth of data. Certain genes, his team has found, ...

Genome editing with CRISPR and other tools is an exciting new technology with myriad applications from human health ...

Oakhurst offered an opportunity to reconstruct the genomes of the site’s inhabitants through time, and to assess their ...

For many years, scientists have known that genetic variants, or differences in DNA code across people, play some role in ...

The sequencing of the human genome at the turn of the 21st century was heralded as a monumental scientific achievement ...

Experts hope the ovarian cancer jab could work in a similar way to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which is on track ...

Now, a study led by Assistant Professor Masamitsu Sone and Professor Yoshifumi Yamaguchi of the University of Hokkaido, Japan, has identified a key gene that helps hibernating Syrian hamsters (golden ...

Naming” is a deeply human activity beyond genetics and can be used to obscure as well as reveal truths. Instead of describing ...

The findings ... Aug. 20, 2024 — A newly discovered code within DNA -- coined 'spatial grammar' -- holds a key to understanding how gene activity is encoded in the human genome. This ...

Boston Consulting Group's experience in building its chatbot is instructive for others who want a conversational agent of their own.