The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine is working to raise awareness of an often hidden gene mutation that’s linked to Dutch ancestry. The PLN gene acts as a sort of “dimmer switch” ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is estimated to have killed at least about 52,000 seals and sea lions across South America, based on published scientific tallies of the 2023 outbreak and its ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have built CRISPR-GPT, a large language model designed to automate the full arc of gene-editing ...

Proposed acquisition supports the Novartis oncology strategy in hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor two-negative (HR+/HER2-) breast cancer ; The lead ...

Women of Kenya’s Turkana community often walk miles each day in scorching heat to collect water for their animals and personal consumption. Credit: Julien Ayroles/UC Berkeley. F ...

In this study, researchers aimed to characterize the mutational landscape of the tumors of domestic cats to determine whether similarities to humans could translate to the clinic.

Scientists have mapped the genetics of cancer in cats for the first time at scale, uncovering major overlaps with human ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

UC San Diego researchers have created an improved version of an earlier base editor that achieves high editing efficiency while minimizing unwanted bystander edits. The new tool enhances precision ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Cute but cantankerous, koalas are making a surprising recovery from a genetic bottleneck, with their once most-threatened ...