The piece is a large-scale sculpture that represents the interlocking forms of chromosomes found in human DNA. The bright ...

A test deployed in many fertility clinics to assess the viability of embryos for use in IVF is likely to overestimate the number of embryos with abnormalities, suggests a study published in Nature ...

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...

Elizabeth McLain wasn’t diagnosed with autism until she was in her 20s, and it only happened then because she had been an ...

Nearly 20 years ago, she adopted Thien Nhan – an abandoned child in the forest, with serious injuries – and quietly spread ...

Being the only Neanderthal raised in a 21st-century world of humans would likely be lonely and isolating, possibly like the lives of the last Neanderthals in Europe. "They wouldn't have prior ...

History has a strange way of forgetting the people who shaped it most. Open any textbook and the names that dominate are ...

Scientists have finally uncovered the exact DNA sequence where human chromosomes fuse to form Robertsonian chromosomes, a mystery that has puzzled researchers for over a century. Using advanced genome ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

On National Down Syndrome Day, South Africa faced a critical question: will we continue to marginalise those with ...