A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual ...

SAN DIEGO - In what researchers describe as a historic step toward de-extinction science, an international team of gen ...

In human cells, DNA carries chemical or "epigenetic" marks that decide how genes will be used in different tissues. Yet in a ...

C, a tool that helps reveal the genome's structure during the first days of life.

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilized egg as a structural "blank slate"—a disordered tangle of DNA ...

For many years, researchers believed that the DNA inside a newly fertilized egg began as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a loose ...

One to two out of every 100 newborn babies are born with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD), yet the exact cause remains unclear ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have shown for the first time that, before they can start developing into egg and sperm cells, the embryonic ...

Abortion rights advocate Susan Ostermann withdraws from Notre Dame directorship position after facing opposition from at least 19 Catholic bishops and cardinals.

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...

Abortion rights advocate Susan Ostermann withdraws from Notre Dame directorship position after facing opposition from at ...