Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

The digested meat from the wolf pup’s last meal, which took place a staggering 14,400 years ago, contained enough DNA from ...

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's bloodstream and tissues. They can settle in maternal organs such as the ...

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's bloodstream and tissues. They can settle in maternal organs such as the ...

Artist, inventor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was the definition of a Renaissance man — and scientists are aiming to ...

A wolf puppy's frozen stomach contents have upended theories on the woolly rhinoceros extinction, revealing a genetically ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, may have captured ancient DNA from the Italian High Renaissance ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

A mummified wolf pup that died in Siberia roughly 14,400 years ago has yielded a scientific first: a complete woolly ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...