When you hear about a company actively working to bring back extinct animals using genetic science, your mind probably jumps ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

Researchers found that changes in the pla gene copy number in Yersinia pestis affected plague virulence and host survival.

According to a new study led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, among others, the answer is not only “yes”, but “yes, and we should ...

Stanford Medicine researchers discover mechanisms of sex-linked genetic mutation giving rise to ginger felines.

From Maine to Florida, the endangered, prehistoric fish is rebounding, but a recent study shows just how vulnerable the U.S.

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

So is it time to add viruses to one's microbiome-feeding regimen of probiotics and prebiotics, synbiotics (which combine the ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...