An infection with Epstein-Barr virus is a nonevent for most people. But for a subset, the virus can contribute to chronic ...

The DGIST Center for Synapse Diversity and Specificity has identified MDGA2 as a novel causative gene for developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE), a rare and intractable neurological disorder ...

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease, affecting more than ...

The headline figure of lifespan being around “50% heritable” risks being misunderstood as meaning genes determine half of a ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February 02, 2026--insitro, the AI therapeutics company built on causal biology, today reported research demonstrating that artificial intelligence enables ...

Thanks to increasingly efficient and affordable gene sequencing technologies, we can now chart our genetic blueprint in unprecedented detail. But what does each gene do? Of the roughly 20,000 genes ...

Gene-editing tools like CRISPR have unlocked new treatments for previously uncurable diseases. Now, researchers at the ...

Scientists at Google DeepMind —the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say they’ve created an A.I. tool that can ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...