Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology—in health and disease. A new study from EMBL Heidelberg ...

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Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color and skin tone, but they don’t tell the entire story of who you are.

The Star’s Newspaper-in-Education (Star-NiE) programme promotes the use of English language in primary and secondary schools ...

Biohacking has moved from niche experiments to a global movement reshaping how we think about human potential. With ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

A bill dubbed the 'What is a Woman' bill, which adds definitions for terms such as "sex," "male," and "female" into state law ...

Taking a table in the room as an example, in a minute she explains the concept, which essentially is a framework that ...

What looks like a simple scientific testing kit could give Australia an edge in the multi-billion-dollar race to discover deposits of rare earth minerals. Developed by local scientists, the biosensor ...

The University of Barcelona has participated in an international study that has found new evidence linking traumatic ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...