Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

Graham Johnson, a computational biologist and scientific illustrator at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, recalls fantasizing at a lunch table, more than 15 years ago, about a computer model of a ...

John Gurdon, considered the godfather of cloning and who shared the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 2012, has died ...

Overview of the process of obtaining genomic diversity of influenza virus in a population replicated from a single particle. (a) MDCK cells were infected with influenza vi ...

Sir John Gurdon, who died on Tuesday, won the Nobel Prize for discovering that all body cells have the same gene. His work ...

But Superman is also an incredibly powerful being. For all of his humanity, he’s not human and with his Kryptonian heritage ...

US researchers successfully created early-stage human embryos from adult skin cells, bypassing traditional egg cells through ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm ...