With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

Most research in human genetics has historically focused on people of European ancestries—a long-standing bias that may limit the accuracy of scientific predictions for people from other populations.

For the first time, KIT researchers managed to reduce the number of chromosomes in a plant by fusing two chromosomes. (Illustration: Michelle Rönspies ...

The national opioid addiction crisis has had devastating effects throughout the U.S., but the impact is perhaps most visible in Appalachia. According to a study by the Appalachian Regional Commission, ...

Alyson Goodwin, a sophomore biomedical engineering student, is a recipient of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. The scholarship will fund Goodwin’s study abroad experience in South ...

The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, it most likely came from interbreeding in the past ...