Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there.
“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself.
Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes.
Science has not failed. We have developed reliable early detection methods, expanded special education and improved behavioral and medical therapies. To think otherwise reveals a deep and willful ignorance of the history of autism and complexity.
Researchers are exploring why some individuals are naturally super-lean and may struggle to gain weight. The causes of such constitutional thinness offer clues to the physiology of weight control.
New approach finds ‘parent-of-origin’ effects in more than a dozen genes — without the need for parental data.
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Colossal Biosciences recently claimed to have brought dire wolves back from extinction. They didn't. Here's why.
Fifty years after the Vietnam War, researchers are still struggling to document the long-term health effects of the massive spraying of Agent Orange and other herbicides
The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some scientists have grave concerns.
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