UW researchers have identified biochemical markers that could help predict harmful algal blooms (HABs), according to a recent ...

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

New research has identified 20 genetic changes in a gene known to cause Marfan syndrome that could help to explain unsolved ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

Lung cancer cases are on the rise in non-smokers around the world, and air pollution could be an insidious, contributing ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A ship that docked in Cleveland last summer harbored what scientists believe was a previously unknown form ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...