Look into the mirror — yes, you know your name, your age, your favourite foods, your allergies, and so on. But do you truly ...

Parents looking to promote health and intelligence in their children can pick and choose their embryos now. There could be ...

Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

Bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme mood swings, bouts of mania or hypomania, and episodes of depression. It is a ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have demonstrated that a genetic method called "pooled prime editing" can screen ...

One of the key challenges of the modern genomics era is studying the thousands of genes in a single human cell at scale. To ...

A test for abnormal fetal chromosomes can also detect maternal cancers—and physicians are struggling to incorporate that ...

A study from Cornell researchers could enable a quantum leap forward in identifying and deciphering cancer-driving genetic ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called ...

DNA-testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which means the future of the company’s vast trove of customer data is ...