Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

DNA origami cages constrain individual proteins toward preferred orientations on electrodes, dramatically improving electrical measurement precision and enabling detection of subtle structural changes ...

Are we innovating or just building faster horses? A look at how visionary R&D and industrial design will disrupt the trucking ...

The centromere is necessary for the transport of chromosomes during cell division and, therefore, for the correct ...

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

The gut microbiome is complex, and can be affected by the things we eat, our physical habits, our genes, and other factors.

Old military air samples turned out to be a treasure trove of biological DNA, allowing scientists to track moss spores over ...