BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have launched an ambitious international megascience project to decode the genetic blueprint of ...

BEIJING, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have launched an ambitious international megascience project to decode the genetic blueprint of major land plant lineages, aiming to construct a ...

Regular contact with fire could play a key role in the formation of the human genome, affecting the mechanisms of healing and immune response. This is the conclusion reached by scientists at Imperial ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

Combining polymers in blends creates materials with tailored properties, improving toughness, chemical resistance, and thermal performance for industrial use.

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a ...

Among them was David Liu, a biochemist at the Broad Institute and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Liu isn’t a ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed software that reduces the time needed ...

Genetic data strengthens the case that humans first settled Sahul around 60,000 years ago, using multiple seafaring routes.

Upregulated expression of transcription factors promoting cone identity in late-stage retinal progenitors drives development ...