Researchers developed an algorithm that maps human genetic diversity and ancestry to better understand population history.

Alan Herbert, explores the understanding of genome information storage, and the significance of repetitive sequences called ...

Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

The nuclei in our cells are miniature warehouses safeguarding the genetic blueprint for the body's biologic machinery. As ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Trillions of bacteria occupy human bodies, from head to toe, inside and out, forming a microbiome that is as personal as a ...

How cardiac cell fates are specified during heart development remains elusive. This study identifies a level-dependent role ...

The similarities in memory capacity between the human brain and the universe, however, may indicate that the laws that govern ...

Roksana Riddle and Christopher H. Contag from Michigan State University discuss the concept of endosymbiosis, how it has ...

To build the map, researchers at Columbia University and the University of Bordeaux took a slice of a frozen human brain and, using a woodworking saw (yikes!), chopped it into 703 sugar-cube-sized ...