Slugs don’t seem like the type of animals capable of duking it out. However, a funny Instagram post by @tiny.sanctuary shows what appears to be a fight between two particularly aggressive slugs. But ...

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On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of ...

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Mike Francisco was an athletic 35-year-old Phoenix medical professional when he was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer. His story is not unusual.

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For decades, scientists have been carefully unraveling the role of genes in disease by examining how small variations in a person's genetic code can shape lifelong risk of developing common conditions ...

When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

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A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

Is cancer genetic? This is one of the most common questions people ask after a cancer diagnosis in their family. According to the National Cancer Institute, all cancer involves changes in our DNA, but ...