genomics

Back in 1990, subsistence hunters in Greenland gave a skull to scientists. Its origin, they explained, was a strange…

New research shows that the genetic tweak employed by disgraced Chinese scientist He Jiankui to make babies immune…

An international consortium involving over 50 institutions has announced an ambitious project to assemble…

Earlier this year, scientists from Stanford University concluded that a strange skeleton known as the Atacama Mummy…

The trouble with the future is that it never seems to arrive. That’s why we call it the future. We consequently have…

A international team of researchers has completed one of the most detailed analyses of a Neanderthal genome to date.…

For the first time, a research team from China used a new technique to fix a blood disorder in human embryos. The…

At altitudes of 15,000 feet, Tibetans live in environments that would incapacitate most humans. New research has…

As individuals, our DNA offers insight into things like our personalities, our health and where we come from. But…

Hundreds of millions of years ago, a tiny green microbe joined forces with a fungus, and together they conquered the…

Earlier this week, over a hundred scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs gathered to discuss the radical possibility…

An international team of scholars has just unveiled plans to science the shit out of Leonardo da Vinci, the man who…

Ticks—those unbreakable, blood-lusting arthropods that haunt your summer camp memories—have some fascinating genetic…

Water bears, known to scientists as tardigrades, are famously adorable microscopic creatures who can survive…

Biotech visionary and entrepreneur Craig Venter, famous for inventing a technique to sequence his own genome back in…

Scientists have finished sequencing the first complete octopus genome, and it’s a big step toward unraveling many…

By editing a single gene, researchers from South Korea and China have engineered pigs that produce about twice the…

The fear of genetically-modified creatures escaping from the lab is the basis for a thousand sci-fi stories, but…

The Y chromosome, a chunk of genetic code that is unique to male mammals, isn’t just physically smaller than the X.…

Organoids are exactly what they sound like: simplified miniature organs. And now geneticists are growing them out of…