For 50 years, scientists at the San Diego Zoo have been collecting and storing cells from rare and endangered species in its Frozen Zoo with an eye to the future. The future is here. The San Diego Zoo ...

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.

A forensic technology that has set wrongfully convicted murderers free and jailed famed serial killers just landed its first ...

About an hour and a half southwest of the Miami Valley is a small town that shares the same name as Milan, Italy. It also ...

Scientists are launching an ambitious global effort to map the “human exposome” — the lifelong mix of environmental and ...

From antibiotic resistance to emerging viral threats, the global demand for new medicines is intensifying, yet traditional drug discovery pipelines remain slow and expensive. A new scientific review ...

After more than 30 years of waiting, a Marion County judge on Friday handed down a 45-year prison sentence in the 1993 rape ...

Mass General Brigham researchers are betting that the next big leap in brain medicine will come from teaching artificial ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Emerging research suggests reversible RNA editing mechanisms may influence heart disease biology while opening new avenues for biomarkers and next-generation cardiovascular ...

Savannah Guthrie said her family still has hope for her mother’s return, as the FBI analyzes the DNA from a glove found near the missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie’s home. Follow for live news updates.

Scientists have recorded same-sex behavior across many animal groups, including mammals, birds, and reptiles. Still, the meaning of that behavior depends on the species and the context. Behavior that ...