Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters.

An international genomics study led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) at the Singapore Center for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and ...

The question of where we come from is one that has fascinated humans for centuries,” states Dr. Trevor Cousins of the ...

One of the most commonly used gene-delivery methods relies on engineered viruses to insert stretches of genetic material into a cell’s genome. Although effective, these viruses tend to insert their ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...

Up and down, in more ways than one. By comparing fossilized finger bones of Homo naledi to those of a 2-million-year-old ...

These sci-fi books twist time so thoroughly that you’ll lose track of reality, calendars, and even your own memories by the ...

In terms of human lifespans, this is like having your prognosis of 50 years being cut down to less than a trillionth of a ...

Clive Phillips offers a novel read about historical and futuristic views of animal ethics and how we must change our ...

With a message that is timely and essential, Neil Shubin delivers a compendium of both historical and very recent scientific ...