Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

Scientists have uncovered possible genetic risk factors for cancers and psychiatric disorders in a pioneering project to map ...

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insufficient production of the hormone insulin by cells in the pancreas called beta cells and ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

For the first time, a research team led by the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has mapped the genetic architecture of a ...

For decades, the narrative of early human history has been meticulously pieced together through archaeological digs, genetic analysis of modern populations, and the study of ancient remains. We've ...

GENETIC interactions between humans and mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), is ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal, the bowhead whale, revealing a mechanism that could potentially prolong the human lifespan ...