Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults published in 2023 suggests – not ...

The genetic link between bones discovered thousands of miles away from each other suggests a prehistoric migration route.

The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

Natural spiderwebs are good at capturing DNA from the environment, but artificial webs are cheap and provide better control – ...

Cold-activated DNA repair protein in bowhead whales boosts longevity and radiation resistance in lab tests, say media reports ...

T he bowhead whale is the world’s longest-living mammal, sometimes making it to a staggering 200 years old. How does it do it ...

Hair thinning, pigmentation, and early ageing are showing up sooner than ever. Urban stress, pollution, and erratic ...

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...

This may help explain how cells maintain identity while still adapting to new environments: memory nodes link genetic information to physical structure, allowing new genome ‘stories’ to be written ...

Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...