Why do no two human faces look quite the same? Although we all follow the same biological blueprint, our features—the curve ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

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 ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

Technology developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to grow "rosettes" of brain and spinal tissue gives scientists new ways to study the growing human brain, including a recent study of how ...

Genetics research and cognitive theory together are revealing autism’s biological depth and cognitive richness, shaping a ...

Most research in human genetics has historically focused on people of European ancestries—a long-standing bias that may limit the accuracy of scientific predictions for people from other populations.

Researchers at the Eye Genetics Research Unit at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) are the first in the world to ...

That discovery, made with co-researchers Francis Crick and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, led to a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick moved ...