Life beyond our atmosphere presents unique challenges that we are only beginning to understand. Recent findings suggest that the environment aboard the International Space Station may be altering how ...

Researchers from WII Dehradun have developed high-precision, low-cost mitochondrial markers that allow them to accurately ...

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric patients.

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

From insignificant individual cells to a rich community full of cooperation. That is how our understanding of the world of ...