Multiple sclerosis is also caused by a virus carried by almost all humans. A new study provides an explanation as to why only ...

Testing the biological sex of an athlete is becoming more common in sport, with governing bodies defending the practice as ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into ...

A million years of kitchen accidents may have forced the human immune system to evolve.

There are only two surviving white giraffes in the world. Discover how leucism in giraffes affects their appearance and ...

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid for genetic testing in an apparent bid to harness his own genetic material for ...

Humans have often considered how apes, our closest living genetic relatives, possess human-like characteristics and behaviors ...

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after injury. For some, however, muscle development goes awry, leading to weakness, ...

Researchers have elucidated key steps in the ubiquitin tagging of the mutated huntingtin protein, providing hope for future ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

Daniele Canzio, PhD, of the Department of Neurology and Balyn Zaro, PhD, of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry have ...