New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not ...

UCL Medical Sciences are based across a number of sites across London. Come and explore our buildings and facilities at the Bloomsbury campus in central London with a 60-minute Medical Sciences Tour.

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

Trofim Lysenko rose from relative obscurity to dominate Soviet agricultural science under Joseph Stalin. Rejecting established genetics in favor of discredited theories, Lysenko claimed crops could be ...

SINGAPORE – While it is well known that age, smoking, oral bacteria and genetic mutations can individually cause stomach cancer, a recent study has found that when they occur together in one person, ...

January feels like the perfect month to give up alcohol – and not only because ‘Dry January’ has become such a familiar ritual. As winter rumbles on, many of us instinctively want to spend less time ...

Human monogenic traits can confer resistance to viral infection in exposed individuals or predisposition to severe disease in infected individuals. Enhanced susceptibility can be driven directly by ...

Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, columns about teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offer advice and how-to guidance about teaching a ...

Genetic factors that could contribute to people’s risk of developing chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), have been identified in a large study. Scientists ...

Often likened to mermaids in media reports and popular culture, South Korea’s famed Haenyeo (“sea women”) spend much of the day underwater, diving without scuba gear to collect abalone, octopus, kelp ...

Proteins are essential macromolecules that perform functions according to their conformational dynamics. Studying the conformational changes induced by protein mutations is the standard approach used ...

Many factors determine how people participate in their civil rights and what political parties they support. Foremost among these is, by a wide margin, family — specifically the parents who might ...