When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting ...

In the game of survival, you can't always go it alone. Tiny algae living in the harsh conditions of the world's polar oceans ...

A 20-year-long experiment has confirmed that there are limits to continuously reproducing mammals through asexual cloning, ...

Scientists reveal a hidden second layer of human DNA, showing how genome folding controls genes and influences disease development.

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

Some bacteria do not defeat antibiotics by evolving resistance right away—they outlast treatment by slipping into ...

Researchers have found that reducing dietary protein may help slow liver tumour growth, particularly in cases where the liver ...

Losing a beloved furry family member is the hardest part of being a pet owner. Inevitably, man’s best friend doesn’t live as ...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a recent Nature Communications publication. In the study, Chappell describes ...

The worker who confessed to the murders was pinned by the novel evidence of DNA fingerprinting; his genetic fingerprint ...

An international research team has placed quantum light emitters onto silicon chips with roughly 90% success by using tiny ...