Humans contain multitudes. Each person on the planet contains enough DNA to stretch to Pluto – several times. Studying how all this genetic material works, and especially how genes influence human ...

To encourage scientists to speak up when people misuse science to serve political agendas, biology professor Mark Peifer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that eugenics should ...

Interdisciplinary approaches in developmental biology have revealed how cells build the embryonic bones of the skull vault ...

It's well known that stress can trigger hair loss. A new paper explores how this happens and how our response to stress can ...