A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

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It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease ...

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Doctors in Brazil discover and confirm that a woman has blood with male chromosomes, a rare case of human chimerism.

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Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue—and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the ...

For years, many farmers across Kashmir had gradually stopped growing Mushq Budji, the region’s prized aromatic rice, after ...