Thousands of previously “invisible” microproteins—tiny chains of fewer than 100 amino acids—can profoundly change human biology when mutated. A fundamental discovery is overturning decades of ...

Together, these efforts aim to decode the inner workings of human biology and enable scientific and medical breakthroughs. "When I worked as a pediatrician at UCSF, I treated children with diseases ...

A collection of over forty new studies about the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) has now been published in Nature. This work encompasses the efforts of more than 3,600 HCA members from over one hundred ...

For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in the fungal component of the human microbiome - known as the mycobiome - and ...

Here are the world’s rarest and most bewildering medical conditions, disorders that defy logic, challenge science, and ...

“The elements are like the alphabet of life. The language of life is created from the right combination of letters or characters.” This is how chemistry professor Chris Chang sees chemical biology, as ...