Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

While Emma has Down syndrome — specifically a rare type called Mosaic Down syndrome — some people don’t believe it. “At the ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

H umans are living longer than ever – but even today, few of us will make it past 100. Even fewer will reach 110, or 115. In ...

Dr Jérôme Lejeune, along with others at Raymond Turpin's laboratory, analysed the number of chromosomes from a child's tissue samples to discover the existence of the extra copy of chromosome 21 in ...

Down syndrome is a common chromosomal disorder caused by an extra chromosome 21, leading to intellectual disabilities and ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton ...

The geroscience hypothesis holds that targeting molecular pathways that drive aging can give us more healthy years. Evidence ...

The ovary is the female gonad, which houses egg cells. Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have, and each egg is ...

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.

Aromatic diisocyanates, which give polyurethane foams their structure, are commonly prepared on the megaton scale in highly ...

“We were telling her and she said, ‘Well, what does that mean?’ We said, ‘it means that you’re special’ and she’s like, ‘OK!’ ...