A quiet layer of biology is beginning to change how health is understood, and it sits on the surface of nearly every cell in ...

Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated with illnesses such as sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis. The most ...

Researchers develop a non-toxic Parkinson's disease model using the TMEV virus, proving viral infections can trigger dopamine neuron loss and gait issues.

While more people are being diagnosed with cancer today compared with 50 years ago, the good news is that fewer people are ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Mitch Dickens's passion for sheep genetics saw his parents give him his own stud, which they hope will help keep a heritage ...

For millennia, thick, healthy hair has symbolized both masculine virility and feminine appeal. So when hair thins or disappears altogether—which happens to approximately 80 percent of men and 50 ...

The latest discovery of nucleotides on an asteroid is making scientists rethink the story of how life got going ...