By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Rare diseases are not actually that rare. Collectively they affect 500 million people around the world. Some, such as Huntington’s disease and sickle cell disease, affect many thousands, others only ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

Scientists found an unexpected viral hitchhiker lurking inside a common gut bacterium – and it was twice as prevalent in people with colorectal cancer.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

During a test drive, the mobile lab van uncovered a drug-resistant HIV strain that sprung up after the ongoing war with Russia started.

A Colorado health tech company, Jura Health, expanded to Louisiana after participating in Startup Prize, aiming to speed up rare disease diagnoses.

A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

From the 1950s to 1970s, discovery of enzymes began by identifying new chemical reactions within cell-free extracts, but ...

India marks National Science Day on February 28, honouring CV Raman’s Nobel-winning discovery. Today, that scientific legacy fuels breakthroughs in genomics, from the Human Genome Project and ...

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...

The University of Warwick, which is setting up the Registry, plans to collect data for analysis from 500 AML patients at sites in 30 large metropolitan NHS hospitals across the UK by the end of this ...