The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed ...

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Disrupted heart and vascular development traced to gene variants affecting NOTCH1 signalingCINCINNATI, Dec. 1, 2025 ...

Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Tissue expansion, originally developed for super-resolution imaging, has become a foundation for expansion omics (ExO), a ...

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

After releasing two gene-edited rice varieties in May this year, scientists are now focusing on developing GE varieties of ...

EMBL researchers have created a new AI tool that uses a “molecular laser tag” approach to identify cells capable of revealing the earliest origins of cancer. The human body depends on accurate genetic ...