A groundbreaking data storage technology could preserve an entire human genome in a tiny 5D memory crystal. Developed by ...

The project offers a bird’s-eye view of how each gene—and their combinations—keeps our bodily functions humming along. It’s the “next frontier” after the Human Genome Project, wrote the authors. These ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find ...

"A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

“If you think about what we might expect humans to accomplish in an area like biology in 100 years, I think a doubling of the human lifespan is not at all crazy,” he said yesterday (Jan ...

In order to exploit its secrets, it is vital that the human genome is fully understood. It enables us to: search for genes linked to different types of disease understand inherited disorders and ...