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How Infectious Disease May Have Shaped Human Origins
Roughly 100,000 years ago, human evolution reached a mysterious bottleneck: Our ancestors had been reduced to perhaps five to...
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Expanding the Genetic Alphabet May Be Easier Than Previously Thought
A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute suggests that the replication process for DNA—the genetic...
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Study Traces Origins of Monogamous Coupling
From an evolutionary standpoint, the key players in the mating game were males with poor fighting skills and females...
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Bigfoot and Yeti DNA Study Gets Serious
A new university-backed project aims to investigate cryptic species such as the yeti whose existence is unproven, through genetic...
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Chimps’ Personalities Are Like People’s, Study Says
Chimpanzees and orangutans really do have personalities “like people”, researchers say. For years experts have debated whether great apes...
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Rewritable Memory Encoded Into DNA
Researchers have encoded a form of rewritable memory into DNA. The arduous work involved in building the system is...
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Many Rare Mutations May Underpin Diseases
The task of finding the genetic roots of common disease seems much harder, dimming the promise of personal genomics...
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Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Life By 24 Percent
A new study consisting of inducing cells to express telomerase, the enzyme which, metaphorically, slows down the biological clock,...
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Microscopic Neighbors, Evolving Together
It seems obvious that how different living things in a community or ecological system bump up against one another...
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Men Can Rest Easy: Sex Chromosomes Are Here to Stay
Fears that sex-linked chromosomes, such as the male Y chromosome, are doomed to extinction have been refuted in a...