An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

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An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

On June 28, 2012, the most significant scientific breakthrough of the first quarter of the 21st century was announced to the ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

We could see a mass extinction event, an existential threat to multicellular life as we know it. Effective biocontainment, ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Dante Omics AI, Rockefeller University, Giunta Lab, Sapienza University, University of Tennessee, Trieste Area Science Park and University of L’Aquila published the successful assembly of a ...

Women in their 60s and 70s could theoretically one day give birth to genetically related children, according to scientists pioneering a breakthrough technique that converts DNA from skin cells into ...