A gene that is switched on in human brain cells has turned out to be a jumping gene that never fully gave up jumping. The gene, BC200, descends from a mobile piece of DNA, and researchers led by ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...