A new coronavirus has been found in Brazil that shares key features with the one that sparked the Covid pandemic.

As humans age, we become more vulnerable to cancer and other diseases. Bowhead whales, however, can live for up to 200 years ...

Mutations in ZRSR2 have been linked with disease progression in patients with JAK2 V617R – driven myeloproliferative ...

Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by ...

Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by developmental delay.

Researchers have discovered that a gene called CHRNA3 plays a key role in determining alcohol sensitivity, helping explain why some people tolerate alcohol better than others.

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) report that the gene, CHRNA3, acts as a key regulator of alcohol sensitivity. Published in ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...

Researchers have developed an improved method of gene editing that is precise, more efficient than other similar methods and ...

Scientists from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center have uncovered a ...

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...