An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...

We Can, a new comic‑book and animation series, asks bluntly: if we can achieve miracles, why are we still promoting destruction?

BioQuest announced the “completion of a draft reference genome for the critically endangered Bermuda Cedar [Juniperus ...

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High in the Ecuadorian Andes, at altitudes thousands of meters above sea level, humans face environmental pressures very ...

A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

A tiny group of people needs far less sleep than the rest of us. Geneticists are finally uncovering the mutations that let ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...