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Putting the uniquely human version of a certain gene into mice changed the way that those animals vocalized to each other, suggesting that this gene may play a role in speech and language.

To explore the functional implications of human NOVA1, researchers used CRISPR gene editing to create mice that expressed the uniquely human version of this protein.Within the cell, NOVA1’s job is to ...

Called FOXP2, it was referred to as the human language gene. But though FOXP2 is involved in human language, it turned out that the variant in modern humans wasn't unique to us.

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Michael C. Oldham shares his unconventional journey from advertising executive to computational neuroscientist and his ...

The most potent use of the new gene editing technique CRISPR is also the most controversial: tweaking the genomes of human embryos to eliminate genes that cause disease. We don’t allow it now.

At meeting on guardrails for gene editing of human embryos, some call for a dead end. CRISPR is a long way from being safe for altering germline DNA, scientists say. Manage alerts for this article; ...

As with human obesity, no single gene determined whether the dogs were prone to obesity; the net effect of multiple genetic variants determined whether dogs were at high or low risk.