Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid for genetic testing in an apparent bid to harness his own genetic material for ...

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after injury. For some, however, muscle development goes awry, leading to weakness, ...

Researchers have elucidated key steps in the ubiquitin tagging of the mutated huntingtin protein, providing hope for future ...

A research collaboration led by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) aims to create a molecular map of human muscle ...

For half a century, a tiny quirk on the surface of red blood cells has puzzled doctors and put a small group of patients at ...

Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

Google unveiled an artificial intelligence tool Wednesday that its scientists said would help unravel the mysteries of the ...

Four Northwestern scientists published a study in December as part of the 4D Nucleome Project, which maps the genome in 3D ...

Schizophrenia is a highly heterogeneous psychiatric disorder affecting ~1% of the global population, typically emerging in ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...

The human genome is no longer just a sequence to be read. It’s a dynamic structure that twists, folds, and reshapes itself in ways that help determine how life functions at the cellular level. In a ...