Original knock out

Cellular system to silence genes found

Miller's experiment revisited

Could invisible aliens really exist among us? An astrobiologist explains

A popular suggestion for an alternative biochemistry is one based on silicon rather than carbon

We've been wrong about the origins of life for 90 years

New research suggests the "primordial soup" theory can't explain how living cells evolved to harness energy

Here’s how genetics helped crack the history of human migration

Humans evolved in Africa, spread across the world, and then it gets messy. Luckily advances in genetic sequencing have helped …

Information superhighway

There is one in our genes. And scientists are surprised at the distance signals can travel along DNA strands

Bite me

Early exposure to mosquitoes may help develop resistance to malaria where chances of infection are high

Peppered by pain

Latest findings in tests with rats could lead to the development of new pain-killing drugs

Origin of Darwin

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DNA as history and sophistry

Genetics is only giving us some clues about our identity and lineage

Stubborn nematodes

How the roundworms became resistant to avermectin

Aryan invasion debunked

Genetic study shows South Asians have a diverse ancestry

Blast from the ancient past

For Indians only

A serious hereditary condition or genetic disease has been discovered among Indians

Evolution of bats

Aping each other

Scientists may grow genetically-identical monkeys

Is there anybody out there?

An amino acid's discovery in deep space raises hope of finding life forms there

Human-primate split is recent

Human-primate split more recent than believed

Craig Venters' DNA decoded

Evolution of gene sequences slow in human brain

Life might have come from Earth's early haze

Shaping genetic inheritance

Same genes express differently due to smoking, alcohol, stress

The chorus is dying

A virulent fungal disease is killing frogs in what might be the sixth mass extinction

Divide and rule

Malaria-carrying mosquito mutates into two different species

Earth has room for more

Multiple habitats helped tetrapods grow and diversify