From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Scientists discovered that the brainless sea anemone build their bodies with a technique common in bilaterians... which is ...

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 ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the ...

From mapping the human genome and increasing life expectancy to inventing the iPhone and developing artificial intelligence, scientists say, science has a wide impact on the everyday lives of all ...

Science's contributions listed to include electricity, cell phones, food and treatments for cancer and Alzheimer's ...

So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...