Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a simple DNA "switch" that helps tropical ...

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In this challenge, 100 years of contortion techniques are explored. How a DNA test solved a medical mystery – and revealed a ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

Groundbreaking research shows that as men age, harmful genetic mutations in sperm become more common—not just from random ...

Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have published an analysis that reveals new functions of the ...

Naked mole rat's unique DNA repair mechanism may hold key to longevity and age-related research breakthroughs.

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus,evolved from the ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

In a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis — a species endemic to the Canary Islands — has reduced the size of its ...