A study of artificial human and chimpanzee nerve cells revealed how faster-evolving DNA gives neurons the ability to build ...

Children with pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (POMS) have shorter telomeres, suggesting MS may accelerate biological aging.

Based on early Phase I/II data, investigators at Cincinnati Children's are enrolling more patients with a telomere biology ...

How did humans evolve brains capable of complex language, civilization, and more? Scientists at UC San Francisco recently ...

A new study reveals that human accelerated regions (HARs)—segments of DNA that evolved much faster than expected—may be key to the brain’s advanced cognitive abilities.

How did humans evolve brains capable of complex language, civilization, and more? The answer could lie in exceptional DNA.

Manipulating farmed salmon to have three sets of chromosomes stops them breeding with their wild counterparts, but it appears ...

Scientists are exploring gene editing as a way to correct trisomy at the cellular level. Using CRISPR-Cas9, researchers ...

Traces of Human DNA on a 20,000-Yr-Old Deer Tooth Pendant Confirm It Belonged to a Siberian Woman Scientists have extracted ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish ...

Researchers led by Prof. TONG Minghan from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with Prof. HUANG Ying from Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai ...

In the first instalment of a series to mark the 10th anniversary of the Future Science Prize, Holly Chik and Shen Xinmei look ...