On September 8, 1966, Star Trek first aired in the United States, launching a cultural and technological imagination that has profoundly shaped public ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...

Scientists have created the most detailed maps yet of how genes control one another inside the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Using a powerful new AI-based system called SIGNET, the team ...

It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...

Engineered wax moth larvae may become a fast, low-cost way to study infections and screen new drugs before testing in mammals ...

A new medical breakthrough could soon make genetically modified pig organs a viable solution for human transplants!

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests.

A synthetic hormone once sparked a supermarket showdown, but today it has all but disappeared from dairy farms ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this eighteenth edition to Carl June ...