Genetic scientists have spliced human DNA into mice, resulting in rodents with increased brain mass, offering new clues to ...

The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

One of the most commonly used gene-delivery methods relies on engineered viruses to insert stretches of genetic material into ...

Ask scientists which gene-editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they'd probably describe a system that's ...

A new study shows that inserting human DNA into mice grow bigger brains, offering clues to human brain evolution.

Ancestry and lifestyle choices of parents may affect the rate and type of new genetic changes that arise in their children, ...

A study of 10,000 parent-child trios reveals that children’s new genetic mutations vary slightly by parental ancestry and ...

In fact, Watson and Crick were worried that they would be "scooped" by Pauling, who proposed a different model for the three-dimensional structure of DNA just months before they did. In the end ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

Scientists have developed an advanced gene editor – the evoCAST – that can add long stretches of DNA to defined locations in ...