Tech advances not only made IVF safer and more effective; they fundamentally changed the way we think about our reproduction.

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

As AI becomes a daily work tool, the real risk may not be losing our intelligence—but losing confidence in our own thinking. New research suggests the difference comes down to how actively we engage ...

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Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship—but ...

Weiwei Fan (left) and Ronald Evans (right) developed a new platform for studying mitochondrial DNA mutations that lights the way to new therapeutics for mitochondrial diseases and mitochondrial ...

Before a cell can divide, it has to precisely duplicate its entire genetic information. However, the DNA in the cell exists as part of a DNA-protein complex known as chromatin. For this purpose, the ...

When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on ...

A growing body of research shows that the stress and habits tied to sleeplessness can make it harder to rest the next night. Insomnia is a sleep disorder characterized by persistent difficulty falling ...

From morning routines to late-night TV, Americans move from task to task throughout their day. How they use their time looks different for older and younger adults. And across age groups, it differs ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden layer of plant DNA that has survived virtually unchanged for more than 400 million years. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA ...