Iams, MD, MSCI, discussed potential ways to determine which patients benefit most from additional therapy for extensive-stage ...

Differences between men and women in intelligence and behaviour have been proposed and disputed for decades .Author Jenny Graves Jenny Graves is ...

New data reveals differences in gene activity in the brains of men and women. They start in the womb and evolved millions of ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

While some practices remain controversial or speculative, biohackers are united by a shared curiosity: how can we engineer ...

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach ...

What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...

Doctors have begun sequencing newborn DNA to detect dangerous but treatable conditions before any symptoms appear. In pilot ...

Researchers set a new world record for the fastest DNA sequencing, completing a whole genome in under four hours—a ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

Within each cell, there is a constant struggle between life-sustaining molecules and molecules that could hasten its demise. For the first time, scientists have created a molecule that can identify ...