By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Life sciences company Element Biosciences sued Illumina (ILMN.O), opens new tab on Monday in separate cases in federal courts in California and ...

It has been seven years since Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui made an announcement that shocked the world's scientists. He had made the world's first gene-edited babies. Through rewriting DNA in twin ...

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During the Neogene period, humanity’s primate ancestors held a genomic advantage for combating gout. A new study found that the gene effectively lowered levels of uric acid and prevented ...

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. By Dan Wang. W.W. Norton; 288 pages; $31.99. Allen Lane; £25 Many of the people who run China are engineers, and it shows. Since the 1980s China has ...

What is the “nose ring theory”? The “nose ring theory,” or “septum theory,” refers to the unfounded notion that people with septum piercings are marked by trauma and suffer from “mental illness.” The ...

Multiomics is in vogue and several sequencing companies have taken notice. Rather than building capabilities for things like single-cell sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, and proteomics themselves, ...

German Shepherds are one of several breeds that might be at higher risk for diarrhea, scientists have found. © Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH via Shutterstock Speaking from ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade. By Carl Zimmer In the ...