It has been known for several years that abnormal chromosome numbers lead to protein imbalances in the affected cells.

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

A rare breed of hunting dogs known for its forked nose, the Turkish Pointer, might just help scientists better understand why human babies are sometimes born with facial clefts.

When possible, the researchers wanted to study healing in a way that was less violent and more controlled than watching wild baboons. To measure human healing, they recruited 24 patients who were ...

Scientists at King's College London say they've successfully grown a human tooth in a lab for the first time. As detailed in a paper published in the journal ACS Macro Letters, the team said it ...

Sharks rarely bite humans in the first place. And in a new study Friday, researchers have found that some of these bites are wholly defensive.

These parallels could be “a very tidy example of convergent evolution, where you have humans that have developed this kind of neural mechanism for speech, and these parrots have developed a kind ...

The transformative impact of AI on language translation, content creation and other areas is undeniable. However, behind every high-performing AI system lies a critical foundation that human ...

Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) compounds are known human lung carcinogens. Solubility plays an important role in its carcinogenicity with the particulate or insoluble form being the most potent. Of the ...