Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

Theobromine in dark chocolate is tied to slower cell aging, with higher levels linked to younger biological ages in a KCL ...

Polar bears are changing at a genetic level in response to climate change. This is what it means for the rest of the Arctic.

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple loop at the cell’s center. A giant microbe called Thiovulum imperiosus has now ...

Chromothripsis enables cancer cells to evolve and resist treatment. With their new findings, researchers hope to explore ways ...

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants. It’s an unfathomable amount of data. Which leads us to another central ...

A new study reveals how ancient DNA from the Villabruna cluster influences longevity in the modern Italian population.

But only a tiny percentage of our DNA – around 2% – contains our 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98% – long known as the non-coding genome, or so-called ‘junk’ DNA – includes many of the switches that ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...

Here are the 10 most-read news stories about HMS-led discoveries in 2025.