After decades of intense focus on genetics, the biomedical research community is undergoing a major shift, focusing on a new ...

There are also potential health issues for cloned animals. One study suggested that 48 percent of cloned piglets died within ...

In cooperative societies – like elephants or whales – natural selection seems to favour genetic mechanisms that suppress cancer, study says.

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

The identification of the remains was based on a contemporary osteological analysis, but they were subsequently lost and only ...

An internet user's claim that arranged marriages in India lower 'national attractiveness' has ignited widespread outrage.

In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 BCE to 19th century CE). The genomes were taken from bones found in ...

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 ...

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

Scientists have uncovered a genetic overlap between people and golden retrievers that helps explain why both species can be ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

Abu Dhabi: The International Fund for Houbara Conservation (IFHC) has announced the hatching of the first Asian Houbara chick ...