If successful, the project could provide accelerated treatments for several diseases that are considered incurable. However, some scientists have opposed the project, claiming that the cons could have ...

"Ancient DNA has become a great tool that allows us to dig deeper into diseases that have had a long history in the Americas," says Kirsten Bos, group leader for Molecular Paleopathology at the Max ...

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The herpesvirus can manipulate our DNA with far more precision than previously thought. The virus condenses and changes the shape of our genetic material to hijack the host genes needed for ...

Armed with cutting-edge ancient-DNA sleuthing, scientists have pieced together remarkably well-preserved genomes that challenge the idea of leprosy as purely a colonial import and hint that the ...

Matthew Knies and John Tavares clearly have loyalty in their DNA, and it’s a quality that significantly brightens both the ...

Thylacines — marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers — were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild ...

Two brothers have been found dead off a California highway, a devastating development for loved ones who had been searching for three weeks for the missing men.

Veronica Perotti, 19, was found dead in her college apartment in Chico, California, on June 29, 1984. Jan Miller has been ...

A fertilized egg somehow manages to build skin, brain, and blood cells within days. But how? New tech called LoxCode is helping us find out.

A recently published study explores the relationship between sea spiders and bacteria. Discover more and meet one of the study's researchers.

Earwax might seem like an unlikely source of ancestral information, but this small substance holds genuine clues to your ...