Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...

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The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to ...

Christine Dunham is a leading expert on the ribosome—an elaborate macro-molecular machine that operates like a factory within ...

Good news: cancer death rates in the UK have fallen to their lowest level on record. According to the latest statistics from ...