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

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.

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

Disease development is often shaped by genetics, with how much or how little a gene is expressed influencing disease risk.

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres—the protective ...

This helps refine our understanding of human origins, maritime mobility, and early seafaring narratives,” one of the study’s ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

India is urbanising at a breakneck pace and this brings with it huge shifts in the way people eat, move and live. These ...

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

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

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