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 ...

The code of life is now editable and the question humanity must answer in the 2020s is not whether we can rewrite it—but whether we should, and for whom.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

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More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

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Recent research has delved deep into the manifold ways in which diet can affect gut health throughout a person's life. Here ...

Lindberg had Parkinson’s disease, the neurologist said, with all the classic symptoms. PD—as the scientists she would meet ...

America’s recent flirtation with kingship is unsettling, but history has shown us that monarchy is much more than power grabs ...

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