In a study published in Genome Research, a team of researchers, including Cornell College Assistant Professor of Biology ...

Polar bears face “total extinction” by the end of this century, but scientists have found a small beacon of “hope”.

In the field of biomedicine and public health, continuous viral mutation and evolution may enable viruses to cross species ...

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) arises from defective blood stem cells that progressively lose their normal functions.

He was cast as a real-life Dr Frankenstein, a scientist whose ego had led him to tamper with human life. After more than a hundred Chinese scientists issued a statement condemning his experiment, ...

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

Scientists discovered that certain gene changes allow cells to function even when frataxin, the protein lost in Friedreich’s ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Blood samples from warm vs. cold Greenland bears reveal genetic patterns that could predict how polar bears respond to ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

Viruses are typically described as tiny, perfectly geometric shells that pack genetic material with mathematical precision, ...

Researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have uncovered ...