Rather, the chains were used by the person during life to limit mobility as a part of a religious ascetic lifestyle.

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Researchers have sequenced the genomes of Palmer amaranth and other pigweed species, uncovering key mechanisms behind ...

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I study how humans and other animals learn, and my research involves working with many different species, from bees to ...

Ongoing imprecision in defining the autism spectrum will only impede progress in discovering the causes of the condition.

“It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.” “‘Female’ means a person belonging, at ...

A recent Trump executive order defines sex based on gamete size. But the order oversimplifies genetics, hormones and reproductive biology.

Gene editing techniques may one day allow for the removal of the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome, early ...

The Gender Equity Unit at Johns Hopkins University defines sex as “the biological and physiological reality of being male or ...

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new ...