Researchers have developed a new tool to understand how cancer cells repair their telomeres, offering insights that could ...

Scientists in Japan have used gene-editing technology to remove the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, at least ...

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

Centenarians living in the world’s ‘blue zones’ share a surprising number of similarities when it comes to their usual diet.

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...

The Australian scientists’ breakthrough says how telomerase supports healthy ageing, fuels cancer cell growth, highlighting new possibilities for treatments ...

Antidepressants have strong impact on male brains — with the nature of the impact depending on the age of the subject — but ...

Researchers sequenced the genome of a sea spider, revealing it lacks whole-genome duplication seen in related arachnids. This ...

An international study found that air pollution leads to more cancer-related genetic changes than secondhand smoke.

What makes a blueberry delightfully crisp or disappointingly mushy? In the largest study of its kind, researchers have delved ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...