Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats and steady steps. Their bones, tusks, and frozen bodies have offered clues to ...

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have revealed a previously overlooked layer of genetic variation that could help explain why people experience disease differently, and why some ...

James Watson, who died last week at the age of 97, had several graceless moments in his life, including serious streaks of misogyny, racism and homophobia. And while these lamentable incidents ...

Sohini Ramachandran is a professor of biology, data science, and computer science at Brown University. C. Brandon Ogbunu is ...

Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's ...

Each human and Neanderthal genome contains around three billion DNA letters, which makes it extremely difficult to identify ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment ...

Researchers have discovered that the enzyme NUDT5 utilizes its structure to exercise metabolic control over a key pathway in ...

By studying Neanderthal DNA, researchers shed light on key genetic factors that contribute to the unique structure of human faces.

Source: Justin Hill, Philip Rosenberg and Ronit Freeman “In the future, swallowable or implantable shape-changing flowers could be designed to deliver a targeted dose of drugs, perform a biopsy, or ...

James Watson’s work on the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA led to a revolution in biology and genetics ...