Silicon Valley and other high tech billionaires are investing millions in start-ups dedicated to creating genetically ...

For over 20 years, the 3-foot-long ribbon worm Baseodiscus the Eldest (B for short) was more a “long-time acquaintance” than ...

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Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

High levels of neighborhood violence increase the risk of Latino and African American teens in Denver starting to use alcohol ...

Biologists poured cold water on Colossal Biosciences’ claim to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction, and some ...

A year of new treatments, new technologies, new ways to stay safe during disasters and new insights on the mysteries of the ...

Two mutated alleles of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene result in the autosomal recessive ...