The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Scientists decoded the 4,500-year-old genome of an Egyptian buried like royalty but built like a laborer—rewriting ancient ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

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The human oral microbiome, a diverse community of microorganisms in the mouth, performs many key physiological ...

A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program ...

“Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.” – François Rabelais ...

Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long ...

In a Nutshell The first complete ancient Egyptian genome shows this 4,800-year-old individual had mostly North African ...

A £10 million Wellcome Trust-funded project seeks to create artificial human genomes. Technology Networks explored the ...