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Bob Eidman was concealing many secrets about his personal life and his business; ultimately, it was a stroke of bad luck that ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

Scientists from Flinders University in Australia have made a surprising discovery about a recently identified type of genetic material called circular RNAs. Their research suggests that these ...

Nearly every disease has an inflammatory component, but blood tests can't pinpoint inflammation in specific organs or tissues in the human body.

It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

The platform enables direct, unbiased genome-wide identification and quantification of the exact position of double strand DNA breaks in edited cells.

Jumbo phages use a protein shield to protect their DNA from bacterial attacks. A special handshake controls which molecules enter.