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

Brenna Henn had a long-term grant to study the genetic diversity of Africans and people of African descent. Then her N.I.H.

Rapid advances in sequencing technologies have transformed our ability to diagnose human genetic disorders, yet many patients still lack a molecular ...

Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside the range of genetic variation" seen in modern-day people, a new genetic study reveals. The finding ...

No arrests have been made. But her family hasn’t given up hope, and sheriff’s investigators haven’t forgotten her. The sheriff’s office announced this week it’s working with Othram, a private lab that ...

A new AI model called popEVE can predict how likely each variant in a patient’s genome is to cause disease. The team is testing popEVE in clinical settings to see if it can speed accurate diagnoses of ...

Precise Bio has reported the first successful human implantation of its 3D-printed cornea implant, constructed of functional human eye cells cultured in a laboratory. The company described the ...

Elon Musk’s Optimus Robots are currently Looney Tunes slapstick disasters. But there’s a massive effort behind the scenes to make sure they don’t stay clumsy clankers forever. Enter Tesla’s secret lab ...

A long-standing belief surrounding super shoes is that they’re only “good” for one race. As the miles accumulate, it’s true that the foam compresses and loses its spring, reducing the shoe’s ...

Additional reporting by Iain Martin and Richard Nieva. Humans& will train AI models to be better at collaborating with humans. Former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1 billion for a new ...

Once you know a given patient's cancer genetics, a personalized mRNA vaccine that targets multiple antigens can be crafted in a matter of weeks. Conventional vaccines that require the antigens to be ...