Household cats may spend their days sleeping, looking out the window or playing with the water faucet, but their biology can ...

Researchers have developed a “mosquito toilet” — a tool to analyse mosquito waste for pathogens — that could be an early ...

Leave it to nature to cushion the onset of cold weather with a literal golden lining. In exchange for red ears and runny ...

Millions of years after an infection, viral DNA still influences how developing chimpanzee brain cells behave.

Software known as STRmix was instrumental in identifying Mr. Bundy’s DNA in a decades-old sample. By Alexander Nazaryan ...

For millennia, the golden rhizome of Coptis chinensis—known as Huanglian in traditional Chinese medicine—has been prized for its potent alkaloids that fight gastric infections and inflammation. But ...

A viral infection from millions of years ago may have influenced chimp brain evolution through DNA leftovers in the genome.

Members of the same people who settled Easter Island also discovered Hawaii, a new study finds.

Are genetic testing kits you can buy online the same as genetic tests at a hospital?Have you ever thought that after seeing ...

The significance of BpyAla-mediated nucleic acid cleavage becomes clearer when placed in the broader context of how natural ...

Nanopore long-read sequencing that simultaneously reads genetic variants and DNA methylation resolved three difficult ...

Ketamine and MDMA treatment were associated with changes in DNA methylation, a chemical modification that can influence gene activity, at genes linked to neuroplasticity and immune processes, ...