A landmark Nature study of up to 1.14 million people identified 1,260 genetic variants, including 824 newly discovered spots, ...

What causes bipolar disorder? Part 1 of a 5-part series explores how genes and epigenetics drive bipolarity, and what this ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

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, ...

Researchers say BC200’s double life has never been seen before. The implications aren’t comforting.

Changes in our genes affect health risks from heart disease to cancer, but how those genes are turned on and off is just as ...

The immortal jellyfish is capable of winding back its lifecycle to become young again. Scientists are unlocking its cellular ...

Humans walk upright, carry brains three times larger than those of our closest relatives, and possess slender, distinctly ...

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 ...

Unrelated virus. (Heather Davies/SPL/Getty Images) Some pieces of our DNA can copy themselves into new locations. Copies ...

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 ...