The findings further hint that space rocks may have brought the building blocks of RNA and DNA to Earth long ago ...

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). A tiny stash of asteroid dust may help answer one of science’s oldest questions: how much of life’s chemistry began in space? In a groundbreaking study ...

A new genetic study published in the journal Cell is filling in some important details about the earliest inhabitants of Palau, an island nation in the western Pacific Ocean consisting of ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

In a single experiment, scientists can decipher the entire genomes of many patient samples, animal models, or cultured cells.

A landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe had temperate forests that could have sustained Stone Age people ...

On the flipside, if telomeres are too long, it can also spell trouble because cancer cells require long telomeres to become longer lived, ‘immortal,’” says Mia Levine, associate professor of biology ...

To understand the human genome, scientists focused on protein-coding genes and their functions for decades. This has given us ...

A frog species known since 1838 may actually be several different species, according to a new genetic study of Southeast Asia’s “fanged frogs.” ...

First‑year pre‑medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) explored Qatar’s rich biodiversity during a field trip to the mangrove forest at Jazirat Bin Ghannam, commonly known as Purple ...

A new computational tool infers changes occurring at the ends of the chromosomes housing our DNA. It does so by detecting ...