By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

Nipah virus was first identified in 1998 during an outbreak among pig farmers in Malaysia. Later, pteropus bat populations have been identified as its primary reservoir. How do factors like ecological ...

In pet genetics, cancer research, and beyond, Charlie Lieu, MBA ’05, SM ’05, has spent her career harnessing massive data ...

Feb 24, 2026 Rosanne Haggerty & Ruby Bolaria Shifrin propose a mechanism similar to the Human Genome Project to standardize and share information. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's upcoming visit to ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic ...

Americans love science and revere innovation, almost as a rule, and politicians of every stripe have spent the better part of a century promoting and protecting both. However imperfect the resulting ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

ADRIAN WOOLFSON, scientist and founder of Genyro, has authored a brave new book, 'On the Future of Species'. Here, Woolfson examines with SUCHETA DASGUPTA the future of humanity in a world of AI ...

With the exception of infectious diseases, examination of the environmental causes of illness has been piecemeal. Gary Miller, a toxicologist at Columbia University who also addressed the meeting, ...

On 16 February, the Paranymph Hall of the University of Barcelona's Historic Building hosted the opening ceremony of the ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...