Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

The mystery surrounding the origins of human language continues to intrigue the scientific community. The ability to ...

This study is the first to demonstrate that certain tRNA introns influence gene expression. Scientists have discovered that ...

A multi-omics study reveals that impaired branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) catabolism is a key driver of sarcopenia, ...

Mammoth Biosciences researchers have developed NanoCas, an ultracompact CRISPR nuclease, demonstrating its ability to perform ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...

Oligonucleotide therapies are among the most promising biological therapeutics. They target disease at a different stage of ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.