Scientists at Houston Methodist Research Institute have discovered that a fast-rising strep bacterium comes in more forms ...

Countless scientists and at least a dozen high-concept sci-fi comedies over the past 30 years have speculated on the ...

The DNA blame game: are we fated to follow our genetic destiny? - Will Rogers-Coltman meets Kathryn Paige Harden, a ...

In the game of survival, you can't always go it alone. Tiny algae living in the harsh conditions of the world's polar oceans ...

Once considered cellular junk, non-coding RNAs are emerging as key players in everything from brain development to cancer — ...

IRAN turning to chemical or biological as its missile supply dwindles is a “real risk” that the West is “blind to”, insiders ...

Losing a beloved furry family member is the hardest part of being a pet owner. Inevitably, man’s best friend doesn’t live as ...

Aging may "erase" the epigenetic markers that control gene expression in the brain, and this may snowball to cause unintended ...

With eDNA metabarcoding, researchers read DNA traces from soil, water, or even air as if they were barcodes. This allows them to discover which plants are or were present, even when they are invisible ...

I’m a biology professor and author of an upcoming book, “The Binary Delusion: How Biology Defies the Myth of Two Sexes.” While the impetus for the new policy seems to be exclusion of transgender women ...

For decades, birdwatchers in Japan thought they were looking at the same little green songbird flitting through mountain forests on two far‑flung island chains. It took high‑tech DNA tests and careful ...