With its fascinating ability to regrow entire limbs and internal organs, the Mexican axolotl is the ideal model for studying regeneration. Scientists have now found a factor that tells cells which ...

The mystery for this 21-year-old patent was not that he had fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, but that he'd lived so ...

A “genetic surgery” or “interventional genetics” system for individualized treatments would be a marriage of drug development ...

A new analysis of a skeleton uncovered 50 years ago provides some of the earliest evidence of intergroup conflict between ...

A future Crimes Against Humanity Convention holds tremendous potential to strengthen protection for people at risk of ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that confirms what many anthropologists have long suspected: interbreeding between ...

Sharks have been evolving for more than 450 million years, developing skeletons not from bone, but from a tough, mineralized ...

Bone is not the inert structure we often imagine. It's alive, adapting daily to load-bearing and impact. But with over 200 ...

Recent testing shows the remains are around 28,000 years old, which supports the idea that these populations did more than ...

After months of trying to raise alarm, humanitarian workers are overflowing with anger, frustration and horror over Israel’s ...