The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift of species may be affecting the well-being of ...

As waves of humans left Africa tens of thousands of years ago, eventually populating the entire planet, they were joined on ...

Pathologically, it is characterized by the degeneration of not only primarily dopaminergic but also other types of neurons ...

Molluscum contagiosum virus, the poxvirus behind a common childhood skin infection, carries two copies of a human gene that ...

Inheriting a mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 puts you at higher risk of breast, prostate, ovarian and pancreatic cancer. Genetic testing and screening can be life-saving.

House cats may be far more useful to cancer research than scientists have shown so far. In a study published in Science, ...

Scientists have discovered a human gene with a remarkable double life: it appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome. Called BC200, ...

The data establish the first clinical proof-of-mechanism for RNA activation (RNAa) in a human monogenic disease, ...

First clinical evidence demonstrating that a systemically delivered small activating RNA (saRNA) can safely upregulate an endogenous target protein in ...

For decades, biology has been organized around a deceptively simple idea: DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is translated into ...

A UBC study finds mutations from Canada’s first human H5N1 case weakened the virus’s grip on human cells, but scientists urge ...

A New York startup is trying to create a safe way to edit the genes of human embryos. The embryos are stored in liquid nitrogen.