Microbiologists at the University of Houston confirmed that a bacterium found in NASA spacecraft assembly rooms, called ...

A Taiwan trial found a plant-based serum boosted hair density by 25% in eight weeks using growth factors and natural vesicles ...

Boston researchers sequenced a full human genome in record time, under four hours. The advance could speed life-saving diagnoses for newborns in intensive care. Boston Children’s Hospital, in ...

FOR decades Albert DeSalvo was believed to be the monstrous ‘American Jack the Ripper’ who raped and butchered more than a ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

Skin irritation, such as through eczema, promotes hair growth in mice, which prompted scientists to create a treatment that ...

They observe how the mobile DNA LINE-1 copies its sequence in human cells, revealing the precise mechanism of the ORF2p gene.

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

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