Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South America, a new genetic investigation suggests ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Human healthy aging and longevity are complex phenomena influenced by a dynamic interplay of genetic, epigenetic, metabolic, immune, and environmental factors.

New research claims that 5G is completely safe for the human body, despite previous research and conspiracy theories claiming ...

A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs.

Research teams funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord ...

Ultimately though, it’s the campfire gene in our human DNA that provides the added value here. As humans, we need to come ...

A genetic mutation that helps protect against HIV infection has been traced back to a single individual who lived near the ...

Scientists sprinted to create personalized medicine for baby KJ powered by CRISPR, a powerful gene-editing technology that ...

Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body − and ...

These results provided a novel molecular characterization of this important group of human cell lines and their relationships to tumours in vivo. We studied gene expression in the 60 cell lines ...