Trisomy is a genetic condition characterized by the presence of an extra chromosome. This means that the affected person has ...

We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...

Specialized structure, dubbed a “hemifusome” by University of Virginia School of Medicine and the National Institutes of ...

British universities have launched the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) with an initial grant of approximately $12.6 ...

Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions.

Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin- Madison have created the first chromosome-level ...

Scientists are warning that a project aiming to build human DNA from scratch could lead to new types of warfare and is a ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

If you've ever shared your home with more than one cat, you'll know how different their personalities can be. One might chirp ...