Children, as the sanitation and polio campaigns showed, are the surest carriers of new habits.

Credit: Jason Bond / UC Davis Scientists have sequenced the unusually large genome of a trapdoor spider named after comedian ...

Mutations found in roughly 20% of human cancers may promote tumor growth by changing how DNA is organized inside cells.

The San Francisco AI lab announced in October 2026 that bacteriophages designed by its new genome model had been administered ...

An AI lab designed a virus, put it in a sick person, and then declined to say what happened.

Under a day of simulated weightlessness, the nuclei of human cells grew larger, yet the DNA inside largely kept its layout ...

Scientists say the scarcity of Neanderthal DNA on the X chromosome may reflect who mated with whom, not harmful gene variants ...

The RNA Institute has received more than $1.5 million to study modifications in human RNA and better understand how they play ...

An international team of researchers conducted a genetic analysis of 430 human skeletal and tooth samples retrieved from ...

Many spiders reach their maximum size about this time of year, having spent the summer eating, which helps explain their ...

A Hiroshima University researcher outlines advantages of Japan's new law that prohibits the transfer of genome-edited human ...

A woman whose bone lay in Isturitz Cave carried ancestry from central and eastern Europe, and human DNA from cave dirt in ...