Under glaring laboratory lights, a research assistant extends his forearm and carefully inverts a mesh-topped container onto ...

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

For more than a century, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been framed as a story of extinction, a vanishing act that cleared the stage for Homo sapiens. A new wave of genetic and archaeological ...

Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the ...

Scientists have created a live-cell DNA sensor that reveals how damage appears and disappears inside living cells, capturing ...

This article was updated Nov. 21, 2025 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked three years of operation in deep space.

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...

Evo’s success wasn’t limited to proteins. When they tested a different toxin that had an RNA-based inhibitor, the system ...

A meta-analysis looked at people’s genetic profiles and found associations between blood type and risk of early-onset stroke.

Findings expand Telomir-1's oncology profile into cancers of the blood, adding to previously reported activity in ...

Cancer research, drug safety testing and ageing biology may all gain a major boost from a new fluorescent sensor developed at ...