New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not ...

Researchers have cracked the code behind bacteria's ability to naturally manufacture multiple versions of powerful anti-cancer drugs. The discovery could make it much easier to engineer new cancer ...

Many factors determine how people participate in their civil rights and what political parties they support. Foremost among these is, by a wide margin, family — specifically the parents who might ...

Trofim Lysenko rose from relative obscurity to dominate Soviet agricultural science under Joseph Stalin. Rejecting established genetics in favor of discredited theories, Lysenko claimed crops could be ...

SINGAPORE – While it is well known that age, smoking, oral bacteria and genetic mutations can individually cause stomach cancer, a recent study has found that when they occur together in one person, ...

January feels like the perfect month to give up alcohol – and not only because ‘Dry January’ has become such a familiar ritual. As winter rumbles on, many of us instinctively want to spend less time ...

Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, columns about teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offer advice and how-to guidance about teaching a ...

Genetic factors that could contribute to people’s risk of developing chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), have been identified in a large study. Scientists ...

Often likened to mermaids in media reports and popular culture, South Korea’s famed Haenyeo (“sea women”) spend much of the day underwater, diving without scuba gear to collect abalone, octopus, kelp ...

Proteins are essential macromolecules that perform functions according to their conformational dynamics. Studying the conformational changes induced by protein mutations is the standard approach used ...

SINGAPORE – The development of personalised cancer treatments will get a boost from an artificial intelligence-based method that can identify cancer mutations in DNA fragments inside tumour samples.

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