DNA’s iconic double helix has long been the symbol of life’s blueprint. However, the human genome conceals far more ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a genetic mutation that slows the growth of melanoma and ...

The salivary amylase gene, known as AMY1, is already known to have helped us adapt to eating carbs. It encodes amylase, an ...

David and Kristen Mittelman are finalists for 2024 Texan of the Year for the work of their forensic lab, Othram.

December 27th is a date that has witnessed a variety of significant events throughout history, spanning politics, culture, ...

The EU Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR, will require companies importing certain products into the European Union to trace ...

The new study, presented this August, may upend past research from 2022 that suggested the bubonic plague spread to Europe ...

Genomic analysis is the identification, measurement or comparison of genomic features such as DNA sequence, structural variation, gene expression, or regulatory and functional element annotation ...

A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University ...

Earliest Evidence of Humans Using Fire to Shape the Landscape of Tasmania Nov. 16, 2024 — Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and ...

Human composting turns bodies into soil by speeding up “what happens on the forest floor,” according to Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, the human composting company the Muckenhoupt family ...