A new study suggests that certain “forever chemicals” may quietly accelerate biological aging at the cellular level.

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

This important work identifies phlda2 as a specific marker for primordial cardiomyocytes in the adult zebrafish heart and demonstrates their essential role in myocardial morphogenesis and coronary ...

Their makers claim they can detect dozens of cancer types — but some scientists say they could be missing many cancers or delivering the wrong diagnosis.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based liquid biopsy test using genome-wide cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragmentation patterns and repeat ...

This study uncovers epigenetic changes during puberty that correlate with insulin resistance, offering insights into childhood obesity and metabolic risk.

Even though farmers have been dealing with rice stink bugs as pests since the 1880s, entomologists are still getting to know them at the genetic level.

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An autoimmune condition that affects the thyroid gland, known as autoimmune hypothyroidism, is the most common autoimmune ...

DNA testing identified Robert Eugene Brashers as the likely suspect of the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders case in Austin, Texas.

More than 600 John and Jane Does have been publicly identified with tech from Othram, 46 of which were in Washington.

The "forever chemicals" known as PFAS appear to be aging men faster in their 50s and early 60s, a new study found.