For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

Deep in Arctic waters, the Greenland shark can live up to 400 years, a record among vertebrates. Scientists have now decoded ...

Brenna Henn had a long-term grant to study the genetic diversity of Africans and people of African descent. Then her N.I.H.

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

A new method of reversing Alzheimer's shows promise in an animal study, as researchers at University Hospitals restore brain ...

For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been framed as irreversible. Once memory and thinking decline, recovery has ...

Using what is called Mendelian randomisation, this study provided strong evidence that obesity directly accelerates the ...

At the core of each of our cells, the DNA molecule is constantly changing its configuration. When it twists or unfolds, it determines which genes are activated at each moment. "We have shown that the ...

For a decade after its discovery, CRISPR gene editing was stuck on the cusp of transforming medicine. Then, in 2023, scientists started using it on sickle-cell disease, and Victoria Gray, a patient ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...