An international team of geneticists, public health specialists and environmental scientists from Greenland, Denmark and ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

From understanding hereditary diseases to predicting drug responses, sequencing helps researchers uncover the subtle language ...

DNA transcription is the vital first step needed for switching on our genes. For a gene to be switched on, it must be acted upon by an enzyme called RNA polymerase. This is a molecular machine which ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

Every human being is a vast mosaic of cells that are mostly identical, but different here or there, from one cell or group of cells to the next. Cellular genomes might differ by a single genetic ...

A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how human DNA is mixed as it is passed down during reproduction Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

Every human being is a vast mosaic of cells that are mostly identical, but different here or there, from one cell or group of cells to the next. Cellular genomes might differ by a single genetic ...