Molluscum contagiosum virus, the poxvirus behind a common childhood skin infection, carries two copies of a human gene that ...

Scientists have found a human gene lurking in a virus that causes skin infections. It may be using our own DNA to infect us.

A human gene found in a poxvirus is displaying a behavior geneticists have never seen before. Not only is it the first time ...

Population geneticist Sohini Ramachandran uses computational approaches and develops new techniques to explore human genetic variation and diversity.

Researchers at Cornell University identified the BC200 gene, which originated from a transposon in human DNA. This gene ...

Researchers at the Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC) led the discovery of an unexpected connection between inherited blindness ...

Scientists at Cornell University have found a human genetic element in a poxvirus and discovered that it is both an important ...

Scientists have discovered a human gene with a remarkable double life: it appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome. Called BC200, ...

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a ...

The formation of a human embryo is the point at which a human being begins to exist as a unique individual. There are complicating events, such as twinning, when an embryo splits into two — or ...

Variants in genes involved in the production of extracellular matrix molecules could have enabled the skeletal adaptations that distinguish humans from other great apes.

What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to try to generate a healthier person? It’s a wild idea, but one that technology over ...