As climate change accelerates, plants face mounting pressure to adapt to shifting ecosystems and environmental conditions.

GeneDx is targeting a big market for its genetic testing: every newborn baby. The 24-old-company is developing a plan to make the testing common at birth.

Last year, at the Open Day of the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), a biology research institute in Hyderabad, we administered a questionnaire to 78 students of Classes VIII-XII.

Last week, the BBC broadcast interviews with two couples who had agreed to abortions after a hospital told them it had ...

Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color and skin tone, but they don’t tell the entire story of who you are.

Restrictive eating behaviors, such as dieting and purging, involve the deliberate limitation of food intake to control body weight and shape. In contrast, emotional or uncontrolled eating behaviors, ...

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery about octopuses: they have one of the oldest known sex chromosomes in the animal ...

For the first time, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers have studied how work, volunteering and leisure activities ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen to all the different tissues in your body and removing carbon dioxide to ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...