Conservation genomics is a bold new tool for protecting life on earth, but it will take all of us to slow the extinction ...

From the Black Death to the COVID-19 pandemic, combining the genetic data of a pathogen with historical records, ...

At the heart of life is an information-rich molecule, DNA, bearing a language-based code that specifies the construction of ...

“Caffeine definitely plays a role in inhibiting oxidative stress, something which damages cells in the brain and is one of the biggest features of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s,” says Ralph ...

Craig Venter has died aged 79. He was at the forefront of sequencing the human genome and of synthetic biology, but divided opinion in how he went about it ...

A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races. By Nicholas Wade J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis ...

Each month during a woman's menstrual cycle, an ovary prepares 10–20 antral follicles, fluid-filled sacs that hold immature eggs, for maturation. In most cycles, only one follicle is selected to ...

Colm O’hUigin is in the Basic Science Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA, and the Laboratory of Integrative Cancer ...

Today we explore the Qattara Depression in Egypt. This mega project is a pretty insane piece of planned engineering and one of the world's largest water transfer project. This gig project is so grand, ...

At a trendy venue near the San Francisco pier, Sam Altman’s verification project World celebrated its next evolution and rapid expansion of its ambitions. And it’s starting with Tinder. Tools for ...