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An Oxford-led team, working with Cambridge and international scholars, has discovered hundreds of genetic markers driving two of life's most momentous milestones - the age at which people first have sex and become parents.

A new study has mapped the evolutionary history and interrelationships of protein domains over 3.8 billion years.

Not only animals and humans host a complex community of microorganisms – plants do this as well. Researchers have recently published work that sheds light on fundamental aspects of these close – and often overlooked – relationships.

Scientists resurrect "forgotte" genus of algae living in marine animals.

A machine learning model will be used in a study to map the risks of ovarian cancer in women worldwide so it can be detected and treated earlier.

For the first time, scientists have used a CRISPR-Cas9 mutagenesis strategy on eukaryotes in an unlikely laboratory – the International Space Station (ISS). The research is published in the journal PLoS ONE.

New research tracing the DNA of eel fillets used for food dishes has found that fraudulent food labelling is rife, with a third of the products violating EU regulations on the provision of food information.

Researchers have used genetic techniques to show that bobtail squid and bottletail squid share a common ancestor and that major biogeographic events might have shaped the evolution of the many different species.

Research suggests that G4 elements should be added to the list of functional elements of the genome.

A new COVID-19 test can analyze a large number of swabs simultaneously and has similarly high sensitivity as the common qPCR test.