Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to target RNA that could lead to new treatment options for myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common adult-onset form of ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

DNA reveals that in prehistoric China, men remained in their community, while women joined new family lineages.

The longest living vertebrate on Earth may have a thing or two to teach us about maintaining our eyesight into old age. New ...

In its effort to correlate genomic structure with gene function, the 4D Nucleome Consortium (4DN), led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., ...