To do their lab work, Laura Ross and her team must conduct an itty-bitty surgery. Ross, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, roots around in fungus-gnat parts because ...

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how human DNA is mixed as it is passed down during reproduction. The map marks a major step in the understanding of genetic ...