Researchers from Leicester have uncovered important insights into how people’s DNA affects their response to the drug Varenicline ...

Sucrase-isomaltase (SI) is an intestinal enzyme critical for the digestion of dietary carbohydrates, particularly sucrose and ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by the progressive degeneration ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

An international team of geneticists, public health specialists and environmental scientists from Greenland, Denmark and ...

While most people can relate to feeling uncomfortable when someone scrapes their nails down a chalkboard, those suffering ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

A new study shows that giving mice the human version of a gene changes their squeak, suggesting some of the genetic ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester—in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo—have ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.