Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

Researchers are investigating the role of non-coding DNA, or junk DNA, in regulating astrocytes, brain cells involved in ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human ...

Doctors in Brazil discover and confirm that a woman has blood with male chromosomes, a rare case of human chimerism.

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

In an opinion piece published in Microbiology Australia, a James Cook University team led by Dr. Yaoqin Hong recently introduced a new theory to help scientists engineer biofilms, which are the gluey ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered a genetic secret within barley seeds that could help protect the global food supply from the unpredictable effects of climate change. The study, ...

Scientists photograph the elusive ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, the source of the BW43 echolocation pulse, for the first time.

Under the guidance of Xi's thought on ecological civilization, China has been advancing the green transition of its economy ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Science moves forward on data. We all know this. But bad data leads science down dead ends. It wastes time. It wastes money.