There may be an evolutionary thread linking big brains, long lifespans and immune-system genes in mammals, a new study finds. An organism’s lifespan depends partly on its genes, but scientists have ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, ...

The first flamingo chicks to be born at Edinburgh Zoo in almost a decade. The two Chilean flamingo chicks hatched on September 4 and 16 and following DNA testing, ...