The National Institutes of Health has awarded $2.9 million to Arkansas Children's Research Institute to examine how a critical therapy for patients with cystic fibrosis might become even more ...

The article explores the potential risks and ethical concerns associated with the merging of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, including biopiracy, systemic ruin, and the creation of ...

Me is facing scrutiny, with some experts calling it the beginning of the end for the popular genetic testing company. It's ...

He was inspired to become a doctor and research clinician by his father, a math teacher who was very scientifically oriented.

Groundbreaking research reveals how women in the Himalayas have evolved to not just survive but to bear children in an ...

The reasons for these differences are not fully clear. Some potential factors include differences in artery plaque composition that make men’s plaque more likely to rupture or burst and women’s plaque ...

Water falling on ancient cells and creating “meshy skin layers” may have been the key to multicellular organisms.

A study co-led by UB finds the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago, seeding the genetic variation that shapes our modern diet.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of personalized medicine, notable progress, especially in cancer research, has markedly ...

Translational research in plant science focuses on moving basic discoveries into practical applications for crop improvement.

This funding, provided through the NIH’s Somatic Cell Genome Editing Program, will support gene-editing research aimed at ...

Since 1997, with the discovery of the Parkinson's disease-causing Ala53Thr variant in SNCA, the gene that encodes α-synuclein,1 our understanding of this common neurodegenerative disease has ...