Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

Ryan Gosling got on stage with Star Wars director Shawn Levy at the Star Wars celebration in Japan on April 18 to announce that he will be in the new Star Wars movie.

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

The scientists state that epigenetic clocks based on the entropy of methylation states predict chronological age with ...

Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus, where DNA is coiled, is no larger than a ...

Allison McClure, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the CU School ...

Astronomers claim they've found the most promising signs of possible life on a planet outside of our solar system.