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, ...

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

A number of recent clinical trials have suggested that gene therapy could help treat diseases of the eye that cause vision ...

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

In a discovery that challenges our understanding of human history, scientists have successfully decoded the oldest DNA ever ...

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

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 ...

The genetic confirmation of a suspected diagnosis of "hereditary colorectal cancer" is of great importance for the medical care of affected families.