Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...
The emergence of neuropsychiatric disorders, conditions that affect various brain functions and behaviors, is known to be ...
Once extinct in the wild on mainland Australia, the species is the star of its own comeback show – driven by a world-first ...
How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...
New York City’s East River has made quite the comeback since its days as a sewage dumping ground—and sequencing the ...
Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster ...
Grazing low-risk tick pastures with maiden heifers before they reach bulling age will help beef suckler herds to build their ...
An endangered mouse species with small, fragmented populations still retains the ability to evolve - and is doing it right ...
In the isolated forests encroaching on the ruins of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, too dangerous for humans to inhabit, wolves ...
Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...