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Sequencing genomes has become easy. Understanding them remains incredibly hard. While the trickle of sequence information has turned into a ...

Call it the Methuselah mutt. There are genes from a dog that lived 11,000 years ago in an infectious cancer ...

The complex invasion of multiple body tissues that occurs when cancer metastasizes is driven by huge leaps of evolution. Maybe ...

By studying metabolites in urine samples from 1559 US citizens, researchers identified differences between the two groups. As well as ...

A decade ago, ecologist Chris Thomas warned that climate change would wipe out a quarter of all species. Now he ...

23andMe's personal DNA test kits have helped increase public interest in personalized medicine. But after the FDA demanded they stop ...

How much information do you need before deciding whether to have your genome sequenced? In 2010, the University of California, ...

Tourists entering English Heritage's new £27 million visitor centre at Stonehenge will quickly confront its most spectacular exhibit – a ...

Dinosaurs resurrected using preserved DNA still only exist in Jurassic Park, but we're making great strides in sequencing the genomes ...

Imagine if we could turn back time. A team that has identified a new way in which cells age has ...

A controversial study on twins claims to provide strong evidence that genetic inheritance has a bigger impact on exam success ...

Bioengineers dream of growing spare parts for our worn-out or diseased bodies. They have already succeeded with some tissues, but ...

Deep inside the Atapuerca cave system in northern Spain, 30 metres beneath the surface, lies the Sima de los Huesos, ...

The language of life has been rewritten. A bacterium has had its genome recoded so that one of its genetic ...

If you thought life evolved in bubbling hot springs, think again. Pieces of RNA have been made that can copy ...

Severe combined immunodeficiency was the first condition to be treated with gene therapy more than 20 years ago. A virus was ...

We're seeing some successes in gene therapy, but cost remains an issue. Could a modified version of HIV save the ...

It has always been difficult to determine how many humpback dolphin species there are. Many biologists think there are just ...

(Summary) Ingo Potrykus, chairman of the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board and former professor of plant sciences at the Swiss Federal ...

They are identical in almost every way, except one twin is fat and the other is thin. Now a study ...

It's like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Researchers have reached inside the brain of a rat and pulled ...

23andMe received a patent for their family inheritance tool, which suggests likely traits for a couple's offspring. But the patent, ...

It'll make you cry, or salivate. Takashi Tsuji at Tokyo University of Science in Japan, and colleagues have created tear and salivary ...

Inside this fruit fly reproductive tract, a battle is taking place – a battle of sperm. In turquoise are the ...

Parts of us may never die – not quite, anyway. Lab tests involving microbes and a mammoth bone have shown ...

Opponents of genetic modification are up in arms again, this time over the proposed release of GM flies in Spain ...

Just three months after the UK started working toward mitochondria replacement therapy to circumvent genetic diseases, researchers are sounding an ...

A girl who does not feel physical pain has helped researchers identify a gene mutation that disrupts pain perception. The ...