DNA is typically found within chromosomes, but certain tumors store cancer-promoting genes outside of chromosomes as ...

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of ...

This week, researchers formulated a new method to calculate the probability of generating intelligent life in the universe.

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

If the United States does not lead in emerging biotechnologies, our adversaries will, writes GOP Sen. Todd Young of Indiana.

Forget Xavier's School for the Gifted - marvel instead at the real life superheroes on the roof of the world. For years anecdotes circulated amongst climbers, of the superhuman ability of the Sherpa ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

The Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged frogs were almost wiped out of Yosemite National Park. But these scientists mounted a ...

When it comes to teaching biology, however, how do we explain microscopic processes like viral infections to students in the ...

Ahead of a new album and world tour, "The Offspring", the Orange County punk group that rose to fame in the 90s, sat down to ...

The article, based on a study of young earthworms exposed to various hypergravity conditions for eight days, was authored by ...