An evolutionary "trap" has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise—yet persists all the same.

Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for ...

An evolutionary 'trap' that has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a ...

A resolution under consideration of the Houghton County Board of Commissioners is receiving backlash, both in favor and in ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and plant sciences, and Imtiyaz Khanday, an assistant ...

Scientists are edging closer to something that once sounded like science fiction: tools that might refresh aging human eggs ...

A new wave of gene therapy treatments offer a new lease on life for people with inherited diseases such as haemophilia. But ...

When Han Kang delivered her Nobel Prize lecture last year, her question, “Can the past save the present?” reverberated far ...

Bedford ‘s Nicole Steele, a biochemistry and molecular biology major at Clark University, is part of a team working with the ...

Chinese researchers claim to have isolated and replicated human genes linked to intelligence, with the aim of testing these on monkeys. The leaders of the ...

Everything that makes today easier than yesterday might be accelerating tomorrow's aging process in ways we're only beginning ...

Two years after this, Sakaguchi was able to link these discoveries. He proved that the Foxp3 gene governs the development of ...