Evolutionary biologists are uncovering genomic mechanisms that allow populations to adapt quickly to different, hyperlocal habitats without splitting into new species. When she was a graduate student ...

A new therapy for genetic hearing loss has just been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The treatment, Otarmeni (lunsotogene parvec-cwha), is the first-ever dual adeno-associated ...

Travis Smith was a very serious baby. Born completely unable to hear, his mother, Sierra, struggled to see his personality shine through his mute world. “My son was 100% deaf,” Smith told Fierce ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech disability, they found that a mutation in a single gene called FOXP2 were ...

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The Australian parliament is set to pass legislation today to ban life insurers from using genetic test results to discriminate against people applying for life insurance. Once the law comes into ...

Millions struggle with depression and anxiety, often enduring long waits for effective treatment. Scientists in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany are developing a genetic test to predict which medications ...

Ancient DNA from a rare Neanderthal fetus, known from only 12 fragmented bones, provided insight into an earlier evolutionary branch and helped researchers trace a massive population crash that ...

When someone is diagnosed with depression and anxiety, it rarely surprises their clinician. When someone with schizophrenia has mood symptoms, it rarely surprises their family. Comorbidity has always ...

Abstract: This paper presents the implementation of a Genetic Algorithm to determine the parameters of an LCL filter for a full-bridge inverter. The inverter employs unipolar Sinusoidal Pulse Width ...

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With such a small risk of illness, does this type of embryo selection border on eugenics? By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since ...