Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...

Archaeologists have revealed a "unique" prehistoric burial featuring the remains of a child whose skeleton displays evidence of unusual marks on its bones. The child's remains were discovered at an ...

The rise of gene-edited embryos has raised a myriad of ethical questions. It involves altering DNA to prevent disease or even to choose specific traits using a method known as CRISPR. In 2018, Chinese ...

Professor Zhou's research group focuses on developing and applying new technologies to visualize spatial and temporal distributions of chemical modifications in the mammalian transcriptome at ...

A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Could we genetically optimize human beings? This scenario, which sounds like something out of science fiction, has never been so close. It raises ethical questions, which Bertolt Meyer, who was born ...