In laboratories, some are cultivating human brain cells to transform them into biological circuits for supercomputers—a ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical ...

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Using sophisticated RNA sequencing technology, biomedical researchers can measure the activity of our genes across millions ...

Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

Down syndrome is caused by an error in cell division during development. Individuals receive three copies of chromosome 21 instead of the typical two copies, resulting in duplicates of the genes ...

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

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