Non-African people carry remnants of the Neanderthal X chromosome, suggesting interbreeding with early human ancestors.
Non-African people carry remnants of the Neanderthal X chromosome, suggesting interbreeding with early human ancestors.
A method for rapidly replacing stop codons throughout the genetic code of E. coli paves the way for biomanufacturing designer proteins.
In the first known case of a cross-species outbreak of an adenovirus, researchers identify a virus that infected both monkeys and humans.
A method for precise gene editing is able to change disease-causing point mutations in human stem cell DNA.
The US government created a sham vaccination campaign to get DNA from the world’s top terrorist, threatening legitimate vaccination programs in the developing world.
A new study confirms that a “trial effect”—in which patients improve simply as a result of taking part in a drug study—once existed among HIV trial participants.
A peripheral nerve graft and treatment with an enzyme blocker restored breathing in partially paralyzed rats. The finding, published today (July 13) in Nature, suggests that a similar technique could one day be used to treat quadriplegics, who usuall
A University of Pennsylvania researcher claims his colleagues put their names on a Big Pharma-financed study of the anti-depressant Paxil, sight unseen.
A fully-functional tooth grown from stem cells is successfully implanted into a mouse.