The team at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology calls their creation Syn57. It is a synthetic ...

When scientists cracked the human genome in 2003—sequencing the entire genetic code of a human being—many expected it would unlock the secrets of disease. But genetics explained only about 10% of the ...

A newly discovered Denisovan gene, hidden within human DNA, may have helped the first Americans adapt to their new world.

A plant's number one priority is to grow—a feat that demands sunlight, nutrients, and water. If just one of these three ...

Horses have played a critical role in shaping human society, but scientists are still piecing together the story of their ...

Worldwide, poor diet is linked to around one in five deaths among adults aged 25 years or older. In Europe, it accounts for nearly half of all cardiovascular deaths.

Patients and doctors need to have access to them and patient privacy must be protected at the same time, the author writes.

When scientists cracked the human genome in 2003 – sequencing the entire genetic code of a human being – many expected it would unlock the secrets of disease. But genetics explained only ...

Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a ...

An aging expert thinks humans can live for 20,000 years—and he might not be crazy. There's one major key to unlocking extreme ...

Salk Institute plant biologists discover Arabidopsis and tomato plants initiate a rapid immune response when recovering from drought, which they call Drought Recovery-Induced Immunity (DRII).

New research from the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is tackling a complex packing problem. Thanks to the development of a powerful new computational tool introduced in a study published earlier ...