The prenatal human skin atlas will also be used to identify in which cells the genes are active, or expressed, that are known to cause congenital hair and skin disorders, such as blistering ...

Human skin was adapted to whatever conditions it found itself in. People took shelter, when they could find it, in caves and rock shelters, and got pretty good at making portable shelters from ...

Mr. Lipkus said there are two principal legal arguments: that the patents are invalid because genes can't be patented and that the patents no longer apply because they involve old technology that ...

Some of the genes from Population B, "particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a crucial role in human evolution," study co-author Trevor Cousins, a ...

More information: Helen Ray-Jones et al, Genetic coupling of enhancer activity and connectivity in gene expression control, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-55900-3 ...

Aging skin stretches, contracts and buckles under pressure – and that's how wrinkles form, according to new experimental evidence from scientists at Binghamton University, State University of New York ...

These human embryos were grown for a few days in a laboratory after researchers used gene-editing technology to successfully repair a genetic mutation that causes heart disease. ((Oregon Health ...

Canada has strict laws around genetic modification and editing, and altering genes in a way that could be passed on to future generations is a criminal offence under the Assisted Human ...