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 ...

He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and ...

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 ...

Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Potsdam, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a ...