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While we continue to fight the pandemic of the present – COVID-19 – scientists are using modern technologies to uncover new findings about the pandemics of the past. A new study published in Nature outlines the use of ancient DNA analysis to uncover the history of the Black Death.

A new study has analyzed the diverse ancestries of people living in the UK. This knowledge has the potential to inform future health research on genetic factors leading to disease.

DNA folded into complex shapes that could be used to deliver medicine or create vaccines has been reported to be safe in mice.

Embryonic and fossil evidence proves that the human middle ear evolved from the spiracle of fishes. However, the origin of the vertebrate spiracle has long been an unsolved mystery in vertebrate evolution. Now, researchers have found clues to this mystery from armored galeaspid fossils in China.

Preliminary findings from a new study involving more than 6,000 adults found that taste-related genes may play a role in determining food choices and could, in turn, influence cardiometabolic health.

An eight-year experiment has found that soil microbial biodiversity is negatively affected by the warming climate.

Scientists have tested and confirmed a protocol for growing human embryonic stem cells into retina cells to treat eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration.

Scientists at the University of Illinois Chicago have analyzed gene expression data from more than 35,000 blood vessel cells from the lungs of mice and identified two subtypes.

Genetic analysis has revealed a set of genetic variants that affect how much coffee we drink and has identified that drinking coffee during pregnancy does not increase the risks of miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth.

Many sections of the non-coding region of the human genome play a key role in regulating gene activity. But the relationship between non-coding mutations and cancer risk has been a mystery.