Bored Panda has curated a list of people with rare physical traits that might make you do a double take. From extra or ...

Around 25 million years ago, an evolutionary split occurred between our ancestors, the precursors of humans and apes, and ...

Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can’t get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering arduous and exhausting. She has the most common fatal ...

Tanning beds promise a quick glow, but a new study says the real cost is written deep into your skin. Researchers have found ...

A research team in Japan has developed an innovative system that can accurately detect genetic mutations in the brain tumor within just 25 minutes. Genetic mutations are crucial markers for diagnosis ...

A graph-based computational tool for detecting previously invisible genetic mutations has been developed. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA; USA) and the University of ...

Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring ...

A groundbreaking study has uncovered how specific genetic mutations influence cancer treatment outcomes -- insights that could help doctors tailor treatments more effectively. The largest study of its ...

A Mayo Clinic-led team of researchers is solving one of the most frustrating aspects of genetic cancer screening — results that give zero guidance to patients on whether they are at elevated risk.

Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasites have a complex evolutionary history and life cycle, which relies on tsetse ...