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.

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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 ...

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

But only a tiny percentage of our DNA – around 2% – contains our 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98% – long known as the non-coding genome, or so-called ‘junk’ DNA – includes many of the switches that ...

In an opinion piece published in Microbiology Australia, a James Cook University team led by Dr. Yaoqin Hong recently ...

If you find yourself in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, paper statistics quickly become apparent in the real-world: The Dutch are really tall. What's doubly amazing is that they tower over their immedi ...

What are usually seen as 14 different mental health or neurodiversity conditions could really be five clusters of closely related ones ...

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, ...

James Cameron leaves several major questions unanswered in "Avatar: Fire and Ash," and it's not clear how they'll be resolved in future installments.

Researchers have identified elusive DNA switches in brain support cells that influence genes tied to Alzheimer’s disease. When people think about DNA, they often picture genes that determine our ...