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Genetic material from old artifacts can link people to their ancestral communities and potentially help descendants find their roots.

Viruses that infect plants and occasionally insects appear to cause infection with a divide-and-conquer strategy, multiplying separate segments of genetic material in different host cells.

Young science professors, both men and women, say their institutions don’t support them with enough mentoring and resources yet ask them to teach sometimes up to 40 hours a week.

Exposing mice to an hour of 40-hertz stimuli every day for a week reduced levels of amyloid-β plaques and tau protein, and improved cognition.

Rockets can transport humankind to Mars, but only the scientific and medical community can ensure our survival.

Such differences may help explain accidental pregnancies among women on the pill, researchers say.

The publication of the SCIPIO trial is among many by Piero Anversa’s lab that Harvard Medical School flagged for fraudulent data.

A new set of engineered receptors responds to an FDA-approved drug to provide the most potent chemogenetic toolkit to date.

Drastic dietary changes during the agricultural revolution altered the configuration of the human bite, paving the way for new sounds in spoken language, a new study finds.

The publisher failed to meet requests for better access to research, a consortium of Norwegian institutions says.

After the reported birth of CRISPRed babies in China, experts want to take time to consider the scientific, social, ethical, and philosophical consequences of editing heritable human DNA.

A Minnesota-based company reports the sale of a soybean oil engineered to have greater stability and no trans-fat.