Genetic records from more than 20,000 children in the United States, collected to understand how young brains grow and how ...

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

Lucy Landman was born with a very rare genetic disorder that causes severe intellectual disability, weak muscles and seizures, among other symptoms. "She is expected to very much never be able to live ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

For most of the history of life on Earth, genetic information has been carried in a code that specifies just 20 amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which do most of the heavy ...