Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human ...

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

New research by scientists at IOCB Prague, has found that alcohol consumption leads to the formation of a toxic compound ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates the production of proteins in ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

Knots are everywhere—from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses—but how an isolated filament can knot itself without collisions or external agitation has remained a longstanding ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A new forensic process is helping investigators across Oklahoma identify remains in cold cases dating back decades — including a Canadian County case involving a woman who had ...

An Erie County judge has ordered DNA testing on evidence from a 1993 murder case. Willie James Hardy, 67, is challenging his conviction for the strangulation death of his former girlfriend, Deborah ...

Debbie Dorian's murder was unsolved until DNA evidence revealed a suspect. A California murder went unsolved for nearly 30 years, until one DNA match cracked the decades-old case. The murder of ...