What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

A surprising new study suggests that COVID-19 may not have originated from bats or pangolins, but rather from a rare fusion of human diseases. Using an advanced AI-driven approach called max-logistic ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is actively removed during spermatogenesis in a conserved process that enforces the uniparental ...

Neandertal DNA variants appear to be influencing development of autism in measurable ways across ethnicities. We also investigated SNPs that specifically influence gene activity in the brain.

When OpenAI announced a new generative artificial-intelligence (AI) model, called o3, a few days before Christmas, it aroused both excitement and scepticism. Excitement from those who expected its ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means ...