When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

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For decades, scientists have theorized that two genetic defects have the potential to essentially “cancel each other out,” restoring normal protein function in the process. A new study confirms this ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 1964, Francis Crick—the Nobel Laureate famous for his contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA—and his Cambridge University colleague ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists at Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) have overturned a long-held belief in ...

Elon Musk criticized MS NOW contributor Paola Ramos after she went viral last week for a clip in which she repeatedly denied there are any genetic differences between groups of different ancestry.

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With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...