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Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

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In a quiet lab at Utrecht University, researchers have built a tool that lets you watch one of life’s most serious crises ...

Neanderthals are usually seen as brutish and primitive, but research now suggests our ancestors kissed often - and even with ...

Under glaring laboratory lights, a research assistant extends his forearm and carefully inverts a mesh-topped container onto ...

Pawleys Island Police Chief Michael Fanning had been using his self-taught genealogist skills to learn about his ancestry.

Every household dog, from a towering Great Dane to a trembling toy breed, traces back to wild wolves. New genetic work shows ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...