In May 2023, the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) released the first draft of the human pangenome reference ...

Crichton’s novel Next acts as an exploration into the ethics of biomedical research, asking the question “to what extent does science serve humanity, and when does it begin to exploit it?” Through a ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...

The human remains found in the backyard of an abandoned building in Connecticut were those of a 12-year-old girl, police said. The grisly discovery was made on Wednesday outside a Waterbury residence ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 marked a turning point in medicine, sparking widespread optimism about a future where diseases could be predicted, prevented, and treated with ...

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are going to choose to have kids is via IVF and embryo screening,” she said at the ...

The non-coding genome, once dismissed as "junk DNA", is now recognized as a fundamental regulator of gene expression and a key player in understanding complex diseases. Following the landmark ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these large molecules have cast a long shadow over a smaller subclass of proteins ...

EIGHT. ALL RIGHT, SARAH, THANK YOU. AND THIS MORNING, A GROUP IN HARRISBURG CAME TOGETHER TO HONOR THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING. IT WAS PART OF A NATIONAL ...