New research from Duke University and Boston University suggests that cannabis use in men may alter sperm DNA in ways that increase the risk of miscarriage and affect early embryo development. The ...

A new platform for studying mtDNA mutations implicated in human disease could help accelerate treatments for mitochondrial ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Some amputated limbs heal into scars. Others begin building themselves back. That split has long sat at the center of ...

New research suggests DNA may not need activation, challenging a long-held idea about how life began and reshaping ...

In a time when what defines gender is being questioned and discussed, a new study reveals that single changes in DNA make dramatic differences.

Humans have about 3 billion DNA bases in their genetic makeup. However, most of it does not encode for protein.

Cancer cells excel at evading detection, but subtle chemical differences set them apart from healthy cells. Now, a team of ...

Scientists have identified the genetic changes that helped tree-dwelling snakes to evolve longer tails across multiple ...

A research team has uncovered a hidden layer of early growth control in mung bean by identifying a large set of previously ...