The US Secretary of Health and Human Services insists he will soon announce the "cause" of autism, but setting a fixed ...

Synthetic Human Genome Project aims to develop methods allowing scientists to not only read an entire DNA molecule but also ...

“The art of the geneticist ... find new benefits of the egg for human nutrition.” Given that 3 billion people cannot currently afford a healthy diet, eggs provide a scalable and economical solution.

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

A forensic scientist crouches down on a dirty factory floor. There’s a pool of blood, and they delicately dip a swab into it ...

Until now, the phenotypic diversity among European hunter-gatherers was only known from a small number of fossils and was thought to be fairly homogeneous,” said Dr. Maïté Rivollat, lead geneticist of ...

Genetic disease is believed to be linked to 41 percent of U.S. infants' deaths, while more than 2 million children have a ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have identified a novel gene associated with neurodevelopmental ...

Genetic disease impacts millions of children in the U.S., with Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs disease and sickle ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

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