Buried deep in a South African cave, 2.2 million-year-old teeth may hold the genetic signature of a mysterious human relative ...

In 1992, graduate student Yasumasa Ishida discovered PD-1, marking the beginning of a journey that would make this molecule a ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

Ten Cambridge scientists have been elected as fellows of the Royal Society. They join the ranks of Stephen Hawking, Isaac ...

Tübingen achieves remarkable success and has good chance of maintaining its University of Excellence title – Top research in three areas to be sustained from other sources of support ...

Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically ...

Dozens of UT Austin students received Graduate Research Fellowships and honors from the National Science Foundation.

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

A study has found that an ancient protein motif that binds to nucleic acids is functionally "ambidextrous." This means that ...

Leading cancer researchers from UC San Francisco presented talks about advances in targeted therapies, cancer genomics, using AI to personalize cancer treatment, improving diagnosis of hard-to-treat ...