Researchers identified a new genetic mutation that may allow some people to survive, even thrive, on three hours of sleep. The mutation is called SIK3-N783Y. Scientists said mice test subjects ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

The established conservation practice of relocating animals from large, genetically diverse populations to small communities of inbred endangered species may risk introducing more damaging than ...

Recent findings discovered a mutation in the METTL23 gene, which encodes methyltransferase-like protein 23, in a pedigree of normal-tension glaucoma (NTG). The aim of researchers from the Institute ...

An international research team analyzed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across 17 African countries. The post Inbreeding causing African elephants to be vulnerable ...

Korean researchers have developed a gene therapy method that accurately corrects the representative mutation (c.220C>T) of the MPZL2 gene that causes hereditary hearing loss, and succeeded in proving ...

What do a millennia-old human from the Black Sea region and modern HIV medicine have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen. 18-25 percent of ...

Africa’s largest elephant DNA study reveals growing genetic isolation as habitats shrink, raising urgent concerns for ...