University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how animals ...

Researchers at the Center for Embryology and Healthy Development (CRESCO) aim to find out why so many early embryos fail in ...

The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across ...

Language is a defining characteristic of humanity, yet its origins remain a topic of intense debate. Some researchers argue ...

Natural "off switch" could slow or even reverse the growth of aggressive tumors.

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto won this year's Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize for computing, for their significant contributions to machine learning development. The two researchers are ...

The first resource containing high-resolution DNA sequencing data for over ... can unlock new research questions and insights into human society, development, health and ageing.

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems with human-level reasoning are unlikely ... The survey reveals concerns about unfettered AGI development. More than 75% of respondents said that pursuing ...

This is really showing us how the genomic architecture guides development ... out how the DNA is folded – and which genes and enhancers are paired together. In a mouse or human embryo, the ...

"What's been missing is how Pol-theta actually engages DNA, which is essential for drug development," says Zerio ... authors of the study, "Human polymerase θ helicase positions DNA ...