Deafness, the most common sensorineural hearing loss at all stages of life, occurs either independently or as part of ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

Nucleome Therapeutics ('Nucleome' or 'the Company'), a company tackling the molecular causes of inflammatory diseases through a ...

Blood cancer is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases that affect the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic system. Like most ...

The male species is remarkably more colourful than the female in most species, as has been an endless source of wonder for ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...

Genetic ancestry tests claim to trace your roots and connect you with ancient peoples—but experts say the science doesn’t ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, a surprising discovery has revealed a giant creature thriving in the planet's most extreme ...

The cave is low and dark, and it is dug into limestone on a little island in the Baltic Sea where the wind blows salt from all directions. For thousan.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside the range of genetic variation" seen in modern-day people, a new genetic study reveals. The finding ...