Scientists mapped the genetics of glasswing butterflies, revealing how species that look nearly identical use scent to find ...

Psilocybin, a compound extracted from certain hallucinogenic mushrooms, may have unexpected effects on aging. Researchers ...

The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes, must ...

Japanese scientists may have rewritten the future of Down syndrome research by using gene editing to remove the extra ...

A fungus found in King Tutankhamun’s tomb and another tomb in Poland has been flagged as carrying compounds that can help ...

A toxic fungus killed ten scientists working on a tomb in Poland, and it’s believed the same spore killed those who excavated ...

If you could look at the entire human genome, you might notice that large sections seem to have been created by a photocopier ...

Semen, sperm, spunk, cum, ejaculate, pre-cum, seminal fluid. These are just some of the many words we use to describe what ...

For starters, orange cats are not a breed, like British shorthair or Siamese. Cats of many breeds, from Maine coons and ...

Led by Ryotaro Hashizume at Mie University, the research team demonstrated that CRISPR can be used to remove the extra copy of chromosome 21 - the fundamental cause of Down syndrome ...

Understanding inheritance patterns in polyploid crops has long posed technical and financial challenges, particularly in species like tetraploid ...