Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

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If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Whole-body MRI scans have risen to prominence for their alleged ability to catch many health conditions early. But are they ...

Humanity’s pursuit of longer life is moving from fiction to something far more real. At the heart of this shift is a bold ...

An impulse to probe the existential mysteries of life inspired Francis Crick to unlock the structure of DNA, posits ...

However, the new study shows that aging signals can travel through the bloodstream and impact cells in completely different ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project will create DNA artificially. Scientists will create parts of a molecule of DNA, and even ...

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

A deep-learning model trained on human data reveals that promoter mutations may explain a significant portion of unsolved ...

Discover how 3D printing of body parts is transforming healthcare, from custom prosthetics to bioprinted organs.