For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

It's time to rewrite the family tree, as scientists have revealed that our species is even older than we thought. In a new ...

The viruses had their DNA written by an AI model and are already wreaking havoc on bacteria in the real world.

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

A new blood-based HPV whole genome sequencing assay can detect circulating tumor HPV DNA more than 7 years before the ...

CRISPR — short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — is a method of genetic editing that uses RNA ...

Model and influencer Josie Canseco paid tribute to Charlie Kirk in her Instagram stories on September 15, 2025. At first, she uploaded a picture of Kirk holding his son. She called him "one of the ...

A research team led by Professor Simona Giunta at the University of Rome La Sapienza has produced the first reference-quality ...

Researchers have found that nearly three-quarters of the population carry newly identified genetic elements called Inocles, ...