Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are ...

The discovery of DNA was evidence of how deeply interconnected humans are, but the late scientist saw only difference.

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

Genetic testing has had a shift in the past ten years, as it has left medical laboratories and entered living rooms.

DNA seems like it would be able to plot out genetic relationships between civilizations, but researchers found that this ...

In May 2023, the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) released the first draft of the human pangenome reference ...

That discovery, made with co-researchers Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, led to a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick moved ...

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died ...

Research on human brain organoids (HBOs) is directly challenging how biobanks and biomedical institutes recruit volunteers.

If your parents' bone repair genes never turn on, you still inherit them, and you heal. But if they don't teach you to ski, ...

HLA class I alleles, one known and one newly identified, are linked to allopurinol-induced severe cutaneous adverse reactions ...

Often celebrated as a pioneer of genetics alongside Francis Crick, racist and sexist remarks tarnished his reputation in ...