Vantara is home to over 200 elephants and thousands of other animals and birds, including over 43 species. There are lions, ...

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

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 ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

According to new research next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) -- the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease tracking, and ...

Genetic factors are thought to play a major role in the development of autism – but for decades what they are has proven elusive. Now scientists are starting to uncover clues.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question.

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have made significant strides in understanding two key DNA repair pathways—offering much-needed clarity to an area of molecular biology that has long ...

A Queensland jury has found a Hervey Bay landlord guilty of manslaughter over the death of his 62-year-old tenant Craig Dunn ...

Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program provides funding for undergraduates to work full time on research projects during the summer. Many students ...