A 'virgin birth' may sound like something found only in the Bible – but it's actually one of nature's real-life miracles. Known by scientists as 'parthenogenesis', this natural form of asexual ...

Researchers have created the largest atlas of genome mutations after fertilization in healthy human tissue ever assembled — a scientific advancement that could unlock new avenues for diagnosing and ...

Today humans believe that they own the planet, but what we often fail to realize is the fact that our existence on the planet is actually a result of an intricate and long process of evolution. we ...

Researchers from Aarhus University and Copenhagen Zoo have discovered that the human mutation rate is significantly slower than for our closest primate relatives. The new knowledge may be important ...

Thousands of previously “invisible” microproteins—tiny chains of fewer than 100 amino acids—can profoundly change human biology when mutated. A fundamental discovery is overturning decades of ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, recently revealed she was diagnosed with ...