MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

A new genetic study claims alien DNA could be inserted into humans. Dr. Max Rempel, a molecular biologist with a PhD from the ...

By examining genomic variation more closely, scientists can now identify new disease connections with greater speed and accuracy. For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can ...

A spider on the Canary Islands lost half its DNA but gained more genetic variety. Scientists say this changes how we ...

Scientists claim to have evidence that they discovered non-human “alien DNA” in people here on Earth and it may have been ...

While the central dogma of molecular biology outlines the linear flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to proteins (black lines), glycomics introduces a “3rd code of life”—glycans—that operates ...

Understanding the interaction between immune cells and cancer cells has important implications for cancer immunotherapies, including checkpoint inhibitor drugs and cell-based therapies, as well as ...

What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades.

Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...

Unusual preservative in specimen jars proved to be a sweet solution for studying changes in genetic diversity among fish ...