He provided the first convincing evidence that cancerous tumors develop from a single mutated cell and later helped expose ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

The nose tends to be one of the most noteworthy features on a person's face. But what is the origin of the human nose, and ...

Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

Fred Hutch’s Dr. Kalyan Banda coauthored a piece that argues red meat, once an essential component of human evolution, has ...

Analysis of ancient proteins extracted from the fossilized teeth of Homo naledi has revealed a startling new twist in the ongoing mystery of South Africa’s Rising Star cave system. Researchers have ...

First, harmful genetic mutations that manifest themselves when we're elderly aren't being weeded out by evolution – at that ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...