Genomic research holds incredible promise for improving human health, but one major challenge has slowed its progress: ...

Back in 1900 the life expectancy of people with Down Syndrome was 9 years. In 1984, it was 28 years, today it's leveled off between 50 and 60 ...

Researchers mapped Y chromosome loss across thousands of individual cells from human cancers, with disturbing results.

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

Darwin imagined evolution as a slow, gradual progress, with species accumulating small changes over time. But even he was ...

Cancer plasticity allows tumor cells to change their identity, evade therapies, and adapt to environmental pressures, contributing to treatment resistance and metastasis. New research is targeting ...

Byline: Kaitlyn Gomez Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to ...

As time goes by, our bodies change, you know, even the brain. A major change is how brain structure seems to shrink with age. Studies show that this happens at both large and small levels inside. You ...

A comparative genome study of earthworms and their marine relatives led by the IBE with participation of the UAB shows that marine worms shattered ...

It turns out that retinoic acid and the enzyme CYP26B1 are heavily involved in regrowing missing limbs, determining what goes ...

Aussie researchers are at the vanguard of scientists worldwide solving the global environmental crisis created by plastic ...