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 ...

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.

A new study linked a very low-calorie ketogenic diet to reversed biological aging in people with obesity.

I'm feeling now like a young woman still with much of my life ahead of me and do not want to live in what increasingly feels ...

As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder.

Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences altered gray wolf DNA to breed the pups – just one of several species the company aims to ...

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for ...