Genetics
This Scientist Thinks an Antibiotic Might Help Autism
A clinical trial using an antibiotic to treat autism is ongoing in California.
Secrets of Long Life Found In Bat DNA
Nothing lasts forever, but some things, like bats, endure.
Quantum Chemistry Solves Long-Standing Genetic Mystery
Why do we have seemingly extra amino acids in our genetic code? Quantum chemistry borrowed from space to find the answer.
The Irish May Have More Viking DNA Than We Thought
More than 7,000 genomes were analyzed.
Salamander Has Longest Genome Ever Sequenced
Biologists found that the axolotl has an exceptionally long genome, with 32 billion base pairs of DNA, 10 times the number a human has. It's the largest genome ever sequenced.
There's A Super-Sensitive HIV Test In Development
The test is 100 percent accurate, but larger studies will need to be done to confirm that statistic.
The End of Men? Male Sex Chromosome Is Disappearing
If the same rate of degeneration continues, the Y chromosome has just 4.6 million years left before it disappears completely.
Scientists Recreate DNA Without Remains for First Time
Researchers accomplished this feat for the first time and may never be able to do it again.
Gene Therapy Treatment Aims To Cure Blindness
Gene therapy is the future of medicine, and curing blindness may be the first stop.
Will We Cure Alzheimer's? Here's What Science Now Knows
Groundbreaking insights are shedding light on this frustrating disease.
Why Antidepressants Don't Work for Everyone
Genetic factors in mice helped predict which humans respond well to the drugs.
What Science Knows About Why People Are Gay
"The one thing that we reliably know is that your family did not cause this."
A Gene for Bad Breath
Knowing the reason why may bring some comfort to those who suffer.
How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?
Scientists bred and analyzed 13 generations of wild fruit flies.
Human Existence Depends on a Single Random Mutant Gene
The work shows "how important serendipity is for evolution."
Meghan Markle's Children Probably Won't Have Hemophilia
About one in every 5,000 boys born in the United States has this genetic disorder.
Hemophilia Might Be Curable With Gene Therapy
The next phase of clinical trials for this remarkable gene therapy may be coming to the U.S. soon.
Scientists May Have Found Impulse Control Genes
Variations in genes only accounted for 12 percent of the variation in the way people behaved, but that's not nothing.
Scientists Keep Looking for Sexual Orientation Gene
Spoiler alert: they haven't, not really.
Genetics Explain Why Diets Don't Work For Everyone
Even the healthy Mediterranean diet doesn't work for everyone.
Why Is Skin Color Different?
A more global view is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about pigmentation.
One Gene Might Be the Reason You Can't Lose Weight
Personalized diets, even from birth, could be in our future.
How to Fix a Boy With No Skin
"You can't call it a cure...but it's probably getting close."
New Vaccine Could Give Protection Against All Flu
This new vaccine was much, much more effective than the vaccines used in humans in 2010.
Breast Cancer Researchers Look to Canada for Answers
Everyone in Canada could get screened, for a price.
Researchers Identify Four Genes Linked to OCD
Sufferers of the crippling mental disorder may take solace in at least having some causative genes identified.
Secrets of Easter Island's Doomed Civilization Unravel
Stories say the people of Easter Island's destroyed the landscape before turning to cannibalism. The truth is far more sinister.
Older Dads Give Risky Genes to Babies More Than Moms Do
As they age, fathers pass on more genetic mutations to their offspring than mothers.
Don't Blame Your Bad Teeth on Your Genes
A recent study finds that hereditary bacteria play a small role in determining whether we develop cavities.