Self-awareness enabled human dominance, but it now threatens survival. To endure, humanity must use its intelligence ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

A new study suggests the unique human version of the NOVA1 protein developed after our ancestors split from Neanderthals on ...

Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functions ...

but it is known that Neanderthals also had a similar genetic mutation, suggesting that this occurred in the ancestors of the human lineage. However, there is some disagreement about the findings ...

Neurogeneticists have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup of toxic proteins in the brain -- a type of buildup distinct from amyloid or tau, proteins that have long been the ...

New research by KAUST scientists has identified that the gene "CIROZ" is responsible for pediatric heart defects and the ...

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with the same mutation, a rare finding of a direct genetic link to ...

A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans ...

Human protection against bird flu may be easier than scientists previously thought, thanks to new findings about the core ...

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with the same mutation, a rare finding of a direct genetic link to psychosis, ...

The possibility has been raised that the complex language ability unique to humans emerged due to a specific genetic mutation. Although extinct primitive humans had similar anatomical structures ...