In the field of biomedicine and public health, continuous viral mutation and evolution may enable viruses to cross species ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Polar bears are expected to become extinct but there are some signs their DNA is changing and they are adapting to new ...

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With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

Lindberg had Parkinson’s disease, the neurologist said, with all the classic symptoms. PD—as the scientists she would meet ...

Sequencing diverse populations revealed over 41,000 transcripts missing in Eurocentric references, exposing ancestry bias ...

Kidney diseases, including chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury (AKI), represent a major global public health burden. These diseases cause ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the ‘dark genome’ that are responsible for controlling how cells sense and respond to the ...