A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

For decades, baldness treatments have inched forward with incremental gains and frustrating side effects. Now a simple gel built around a DNA sugar is producing such dramatic regrowth in animals that ...

Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine ...

That rogue scientist who created HIV-resistant designer babies is apparently gearing up for more human gene-editing research. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, He Jiankui said he wants to ...

Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains. By Damien Cave Reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam The world is facing an abundance of tragic events that produce ...

When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...

A 2015 report published by a private genomics testing company found that 2% of 345 hot dogs tested contained traces of human DNA. However, it was unclear whether that report was a peer-reviewed study, ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...