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About 8% of our genome is made of leftover viruses from our ancestors' infections.
Most patients with cancer die from metastasis. Stopping it would be a major advance in cancer therapy.
Just as human beings diversified so that people in Asia look different from people in Europe, so too did their microbiomes.
These salamanders are helping unlock the mysteries of brain evolution and regeneration.
Advances in ancient DNA analysis gave researchers a new way to trace the movements of peoples across Eurasia.
One tiny change might have made a huge difference.
Despite the fact that both species shared a similarly large neocortex, scientists still have many questions about how closely the function of their brains resembled our own.
By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.
Are there any advantages to looking so cumbersome?
Thanks to genetics and improving nutrition, denizens of the Western Balkans have surpassed the Dutch in height.
An interview with CRISPR co-discoverer and Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna.
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While Y chromosome loss was first observed in 1963, it was not until 2014 that researchers found the link to a shorter life span.
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.
More than 90% of human faces are home to mites that live in our skin pores. These friendly guests might be merging with us.
"Lac-Phe" grants obese mice the benefits of exercise — without exercising. But don't expect an "exercise pill."
For 40 years, scientists thought a specific gene was linked to aggression in hamsters. Removing it, however, had violent consequences.
“It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research."
Science doesn't fit neatly into ideology.
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Almost all our school improvements fail. Here’s why.
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“If 90% of children had ADHD and only 10% of children could sit still at a desk, how would we design school?”
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We all play the genetic lottery - and the outcome matters a lot.
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How can the law keep up with new genetic technology?
Will nature or nurture win out?
Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.
Thanks to genetic clues, scientists discovered that an old stroke therapy that had abandoned for decades might just work.
A new wave of preventative cancer vaccines are set to begin trials.
Probably not. Even though we're still investigating the origin of life, the evidence suggests that cells came much later.