The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

A Wits-led study published in the prestigious journal Nature has added whole-genome data from more than 1,000 people across nine African countries to global science, significantly expanding ...

When two defective gene variants combine, normal protein function can sometimes be restored.

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have unlocked the most detailed genetic blueprint yet of a major ...

A new study reveals that super agers over 80 have a distinct genetic edge. They are much less likely to carry the gene most ...

The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South ...

Putin explained how science could be used to gain an advantage over Russia's enemies.

Scientists know that genetic factors can explain many of autism’s features - but have autism researchers been looking for those features in the wrong DNA? A new study uses A.I. to uncover changes ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...