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In the fall of 2013, Charlotte Lindqvist got a call from a film company making an Animal Planet documentary about ...

[Researcher Jon Nadeau’s] hypothesis—that the egg could woo sperm with specific genes and vice versa—is part of a growing realization ...

Passenger pigeons were once the most abundant bird in North America, and quite possibly the world. … In a matter ...

[L]ast year, Kevin Sinclair, a developmental biologist at the University of Nottingham, published a paper about several clones including Dolly’s four “sisters,” who ...

[Researcher Osamu] Nureki’s paper was published in Nature Communications Friday, and by early morning, the video that astonished the room in [a CRISPR ...

U.K. Biobank [recruited] 500,000 volunteers for a massive study on the origins of disease. In addition to collecting blood and urine, ...

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, around 62 miles west of what would eventually become Marrakesh, a group of people ...

I visited Greenland because, lately, the land here has gone soft, and disquieting things threaten to wake in it. … ...

[S]ocial sciences [tend] to focus on people from WEIRD societies—that is, Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. The results of such studies ...

[E]ye doctors based primarily at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami had published a widely covered report describing three eerily similar cases: ...

There are genes known as retrotransposons that can copy themselves and paste the duplicates in other parts of our DNA, ...

James Kugel has been spent his entire scholarly career studying the Bible, but some very basic questions about it still ...

“These tests at their best allow new forms of connection that might not have been otherwise possible,” says Alondra Nelson, ...

As few as five years ago, [biochemist Jennifer Doudna] was, by her own admission, working head-down in an ivory tower, with ...

Recent years...have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that...people are susceptible to false information and fake news. “My sense ...

DvSnf7 dsRNA is an unusual insecticide. You don’t spray it on crops. Instead, you encode instructions for manufacturing it in ...

Nobody knew it then, but the genetic mutation came to Utah by wagon with the Hinman family. Lyman Hinman found ...

If you told a modern geneticist that a complex trait...was the work of just 15 genes, they’d probably laugh. It’s ...

If power were a prescription drug, it would come with a long list of known side effects. It can intoxicate ...

[B]ones of the former occupants [of a Moroccan cave called Jebel Irhoud] have been recently unearthed by an international team ...

Humans bodies require a ridiculous and—for most of Earth’s history—improbable amount of energy to stay alive. Consider a human dropped ...

The latest update came quietly on [in April 2017]. “We’re sorry to say that we have reached a significant transition ...

Ten years ago, a team of scientists published the first genome of Aedes aegypti­—the infamous mosquito that spreads Zika, dengue ...

[D]espite massive hype in the science and general press, [the gene-editing tool CRISPR] probably remains unfamiliar or misunderstood to many ...

GINA—the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act—was written...[to prevent] employers from basing employment decisions on someone’s genes [and to stop] health insurers ...

Teruaki Nakatsuji and Richard Gallo from the University of California, San Diego, have discovered that some bacteria which naturally live ...

Stephane Budel has an idea for an app: You get your DNA sequenced to find out which comic book superhero ...

People who carry one copy [of the ApoE4 gene] have a three-fold higher risk of Alzheimer’s than those with none...Even if ...