Background SLE is a complex autoimmune disease with heterogeneous manifestations and unpredictable outcomes. Early diagnosis is challenging due to non-specific symptoms, and current treatments only ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could explain how the condition is inherited ...

Origins Mysterious Ancient Humans Now Have a Face Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

Results from using RNAscope technology to detect novel truncated RNAs in the aging human brain created by the "jumping" of long interspersed nuclear element-1, a genetic sequence known to use its ...

Human remains were found in Naples. The Collier County Sheriff's Office sent the bones for DNA testing to determine identity.