Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

The mechanisms behind the development of human language are one of the great mysteries of primate evolution. Biologists have ...

Genetic factors are thought to play a major role in the development of autism – but for decades what they are has proven elusive. Now scientists are starting to uncover clues.

Actor Gene Hackman and his pianist wife Betsy's bodies have been laid to rest following a memorial that took place over a ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...

The omission seemed to highlight the fact that the NIH and other federal agencies have long been prohibited from funding research involving the genetic manipulation of human embryos, through the ...

The researchers analyzed changes to gene expression in ecDNA formed by HPV and human DNA hybridization in oropharyngeal tumor ...

Study identifies a new set of genes and cellular pathway that play a role in the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

To make the organ more compatible with the human body, scientists made six gene edits to a liver from a Bama miniature pig. When the surgeons placed the pig organ in the patient, they still kept ...

The HFpEF Summit is a biannual, two-day meeting bringing together internationally recognized leaders in the clinical, biological, and translational study of HFpEF. This summit focused on the latest ...

Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome.