For centuries, we’ve thought of these changes as part of the "genetic lottery," something we can't control. Science is now ...

A study published today in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology is the first time researchers have shown evidence that a ...

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As they prepared to enter their senior year at Fort Hays State University (FHSU), Honors College students Hazel Frans and ...

Many scientific discoveries are serendipitous—the result of chance. Seeing evolution in action in a cheese cave turned out to ...

Natural systems such as CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs) offer a targetable, one-step way to edit genomes. However, ...

When María Branyas Morera passed away in August 2024, she was 117 years and 168 days old, the planet’s oldest person living ...

“She had an exceptional genome enriched in variants in genes that are associated with enhanced lifespan in other species, ...

Unlike other tissues in the human body, human eggs don't pick up as many mutations in some of their DNA as they age. The findings from a new study ...

Scripps professor Sumit Chanda says improving coronavirus care is especially important to get ahead of any future mutations or pandemics ...

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning ...

If future studies confirm the rescued receptors work normally, the study offers a new roadmap for rare disease drug development.