For decades, biologists have treated gene traffic between humans and viruses as a mostly one-way street, with viral DNA ...

Unrelated virus. (Heather Davies/SPL/Getty Images) Some pieces of our DNA can copy themselves into new locations. Copies derived from one gene active in human brain cells appear to have taken that ...

Researchers say BC200’s double life has never been seen before. The implications aren’t comforting.

Sequencing the human genome was once thought to be the key to understanding genetic diversity and disease, but gene ...

Behavioural genetics is the interdisciplinary effort to establish causal links between genes and animal (including human) behavioural traits and neural mechanisms. Methods used include twin studies, ...

How did the human brain become so much larger than that of our closest evolutionary relatives? Part of the answer lies not in ...

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a ...

A population-scale single-nucleus study of 287 human skeletal muscle biopsies maps cell-type-specific eQTLs and caQTLs that ...

Thanks to increasingly efficient and affordable gene sequencing technologies, we can now chart our genetic blueprint in unprecedented detail. But what does each gene do? Of the roughly 20,000 genes ...

The formation of a human embryo is the point at which a human being begins to exist as a unique individual. There are complicating events, such as twinning, when an embryo splits into two — or ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday issued draft guidance laying out its proposed regulatory approach to ...