Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and ...

The Broad Institute gene-sequencing lab used Roche equipment to read infants’ DNA genomes in less than four hours, cutting an ...

Police in San Bruno have identified the parents of a deceased infant whose body was discovered in a city park more than four ...

A mitochondrial DNA study points to at least two waves of migration linking the Americas, China, and Japan- one during the ...

The number of people living with dementia worldwide was estimated at 57 million in 2021 with nearly 10 million new cases ...

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

A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

There’s 99.9% similarity across human genomes, with the remaining 0.1% variation being what makes each person unique.1 In ...

The first of the genes highlighted by the researchers is Cell Adhesion Molecule 2 ( CADM2 ), which helps handle cell assembly ...