A new study shows that inserting human DNA into mice grow bigger brains, offering clues to human brain evolution.

The scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore injected an ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

The slice of code — a stretch of DNA that acts like a dial to turn up the expression of certain genes — expanded the outer ...

This new immunotherapy is particularly effective in several types of solid tumors, but it will take time to confirm its ...

Taurine, common in energy drinks, may secretly fuel leukemia. Blocking its uptake in cancer cells could lead to powerful new ...

A study of human tumor cells implanted in mice from the MacPherson Lab at Fred Hutch describes a new way to screen for the ...

A new discovery that myeloid leukaemia cells are fed by taurine has unveiled a new treatment method for one of the most ...

These blood cancers all start in the bone marrow, and the research shows that cancer cells depend on taurine from their ...

The answer to the question 'how much sleep do I need each night?' depends on a variety of factors, and we just found a new ...

The advantages of the mouse for behavioural studies include an extensive array of genetic technologies and an elaborate behavioural repertoire that can be used to create models of human disease.