Zookpeers at Exotic Zoo in Telford, UK, were surprised to find that one of its female iguanas had given birth without ever ...

A scaling law relates the expected number of mutants to the total population size of cells in a spatially constrained but ...

A mixture of DNA and proteins—known as "chromatin"—sits inside every cell nucleus as a jumbled puddle of genetic information. As cells prepare to divide during mitosis, the chromatin is condensed into ...

The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to ...

Gene therapies for rare diseases are frequently developed then discarded by drug companies because they can’t afford to ...

Government scientists say infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” have been increasing dramatically.

A new theory suggests that cultural systems dictated how human beings survived and not genetics, hinting at adaptability and ...