In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human ...

Nearly 30 years ago, researchers began studying the gene Astn1, which encodes the cell adhesion protein astrotactin 1 in mice ...

The project focuses on increasing the diversity of genetic data and improving outcomes of conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and triple-negative breast cancer.

To identify possible burn-injury response genes, researchers examined the transcriptomes (the genes expressed) in both burnt and unburnt skin from humans and rats. Examining the gene sequences, they ...

Rutgers Develops New Tool for Examining Cancer Genomic Data that Could Improve Treatment When scientists sequence tumor DNA, they typically find small amounts of genetic code from bacteria, viruses ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

In Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, a protein called tau can pile up inside brain cells and form toxic clumps. Those ...

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we inherit, and on where we live and what we do ...