A new report reveals alarming rates of obstetric violence in South Africa, underscoring the urgent need for systemic change ...

At first glance, dragonflies and humans seem to have nothing in common. However, a new study has shown that this is not the ...

The human immune system is finely tuned to detect and destroy viral threats. But this same defense system can misfire. When fragments of the body's own damaged DNA are mistaken for viral invaders, the ...

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I am a producer, journalist and storyteller who identifies as being on the asexuality spectrum, and nowhere does this become ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

In a time when what defines gender is being questioned and discussed, a new study reveals that single changes in DNA make dramatic differences.

It's been a year since the US government's aid cuts sent shock waves around the world. But in one maternity hospital in Freetown it's the loss of UK funding that threatens to unravel years of steady ...