Some 23,000 years ago, the first people walked along the muddy edge of a lake in what is now New Mexico. Their feet sank into ...

A research review favors migration between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago for ancestors of most living Indigenous Americans.

Treating inherited diseases is one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine. In the future, targeted gene corrections at the earliest stages of embryonic development could help prevent certain ...

One of the unresolved mysteries about the history of the Americas is when the first people arrived. Despite extensive debate ...

Three years ago, George Kassiotis and his team made an unexpected discovery: A specific way of producing a protein called calbindin was found to help cancer cells survive by preventing them from aging ...

A graphic shared on Facebook and repeated in Instagram posts with the same wording, claims that “labs DNA-tests reveal” ...

Scientists have discovered a human gene with a remarkable double life: it appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome. Called BC200, ...

For decades, mitochondrial DNA disorders have stood among the most stubborn challenges in medicine: a group of inherited neurometabolic diseases affecting roughly one in 8,000 people, for which no ...

One reason for my optimism is that technological innovation simply gives us more options than we had in the past. Another reason I’m optimistic is that tech-based interventions are relatively easy to ...

Ray Tierney testified before a hearing in Albany on Thursday, saying the technology played a critical role in identifying ...

First-in-human ER-100 data support dose escalation, with early visual-field signals in two of three glaucoma patients.