Imagine a world where woolly mammoths roam the tundra once more—not in a prehistoric dream but as a living, breathing reality ...

Rewilding advocates have long pushed for the return of the lynx and other lost species to Britain. But Texan businessman Ben ...

Patients were previously met with fragmented care, limited access to genetic testing and a lack of integrated counselling, OGS clinical director Beau Fenner said. The care was also focused on ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...

Analyses reveal that the repeated DNA sequence driving the disease expands slowly over decades in certain brain cells and then rapidly lengthens and kills the cell. Findings offer new way to ...

This manuscript describes the identification and characterization of 12 specific phosphomimetic mutations in the recombinant full-length human tau protein that trigger tau to form fibrils. This ...

Scientists have found 697 genetic variants – or small changes within a gene – linked to depression, of which almost 300 were previously unknown. A Queensland scientist described the project as ...

Genetic algorithms are unique ways to solve complex problems by harnessing the power of nature. By applying these methods to predicting security prices, traders can optimize trading rules by ...

Overall, scientists think that how long we live is about 25 percent attributable to our genes, and 75 percent attributable to our environment and lifestyle. But as people near 100 and beyond ...

Variant Bio, a small biotech company based in Seattle, is using genetic information from Indigenous people to develop drugs for obesity and diabetes. By Brendan Borrell When Stephane Castel first ...