In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has led to profound changes in their skeletal structure. This experiment, ...

The discovery may explain why cutting edge CAR T-cell therapy has managed to revolutionized treatment for blood cancer but ...

In a paper published last month, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center introduced lipid nanoparticles — hollow, fatty ...

Microglia replacement therapy helps treat people with a rare genetic condition called ALSP, suggesting the approach could ...

A groundbreaking study led by Prof. Bo Peng at Fudan University demonstrates that microglia replacement effectively halts the ...

Scientists discovered a blood stem cell mutation that may lower Alzheimer’s risk. Learn how this breakthrough could shape ...

Turtles have very low cancer rates, even in large, long-lived species. Their bodies show strong natural cancer defenses.

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

This genetic mutation makes the FasL protein vulnerable to being disabled by plasmin, a tumor-associated enzyme. This vulnerability seems unique to humans and is not found in non-human primates ...

Unexpected mutations in blood stem cells may help protect against Alzheimer’s disease. A new study published in the journal ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...