It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the ...

The scientist who went to prison for gene hacking a pair of twins in China is now decrying the ethics that punished him.

In a story of collaboration and community, researchers identified intergenerational epigenetic changes caused by war and ...

Stay up to date on the work of researchers in NYU Langone’s Center for Human Genetics and Genomics by reading the latest news ...

Researchers at Duke University and North Carolina State University have discovered a handful of new CRISPR-Cas systems that ...

Research increasingly shows that tackling modifiable exposures and environmental risks could be one of our most powerful ...

Medera is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on targeting difficult-to-treat and currently incurable diseases by developing a range of next-generation therapeutics. Medera operates via ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics, two of the smallest and most invisible forms of plastic pollution, may pose risks to human health.

Researchers have developed PhyloFrame, a machine-learning tool that uses artificial intelligence to account for ancestral diversity in genetic data.

Their work, led by Kiley Graim, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, focuses on improving human health by addressing "ancestral bias" in ...

When a gene gets duplicated, it often leads to the recipe being followed too many times, and the resulting “leftovers,” the ...