In a major step toward treating rare neurological diseases, scientists have used gene editing to correct mutations inside the ...

A study based on a review of genetic and health information from more than 276,000 people finds strong support for a decades-old evolutionary theory that sought to explain aging and senescence. A ...

Thousands of previously “invisible” microproteins—tiny chains of fewer than 100 amino acids—can profoundly change human biology when mutated. A fundamental discovery is overturning decades of ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an ...

The first time the seemingly healthy woman gave birth, she went into heart failure. She recovered and went on to deliver her ...

Chinese researchers are developing a humanoid robot with an artificial womb designed to replicate the entire human pregnancy process from conception to birth. This ambitious project, though raising ...

Researchers headed by a team at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have created what they claim to be the largest atlas of post-zygotic mutations (PZMs) in healthy human tissue. They generated ...