In addition to sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami, a new California study suggests the tongue might also detect ammonium chloride as a basic sixth taste.
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome is a rare and life-threatening genetic condition that causes the skin to peel off. When a woman in Ofakim was diagnosed, doctors at Soroka were able to save her.
After decades of challenges, this elusive area has been fully sequenced, completing the set of end-to-end human chromosomes.
According to researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU), this new model could help with personalized early detection for breast cancer.
The study is the first gene-mapping study on human scalp hair whorls.
A new study of metabolic health in vertebrates could be the key to improved health and extended lifespans in humans.
Germline hemizygous loss-of-function mutations of the DOCK11 gen were, for the first time, shown to cause an inborn error of blood cellular component formation and immunity
Though Neanderthals have been extinct for tens of thousands of years, their genetics still make up anywhere from 1% to 4% of the human genome.
The synthetic fetus is not likely to be used in the near future because of the ethical and moral issues associated with it.
Specific research into Ashkenazi genetics relation to Alzheimer's diseases was done for the first time.
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