The U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime ...

Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two ...

Scientists report that they have learned how certain combinations of rearranged genes can promote the progression of a rare type of kidney cancer.

An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 years ago, are believed ...

The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

A United States infant with a rare condition has become history's first patient to be treated with a personalized ...

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

What makes orange cats orange? For over 60 years, scientists have been searching for the answer. Researchers from Japan have ...

Ask scientists what gene editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they'd probably describe a system that's now close to realization in the labs of Samuel Sternberg at Columbia ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters.

At a gene therapy conference, there was excitement about the first correction of a genetic misspelling, along with questions ...