The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

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Louis Pasteur’s breakthrough discoveries unlocked the world of microscopic organisms that live inside our bodies.

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A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

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The study, led by paleogeneticist Edmund Moody from the University of Bristol, claims that LUCA may have emerged 4.2 billion ...

You have this convergence of crises,” says Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud. Here’s what that means and how she and others are ...

If the human immunodeficiency virus is less well suppressed thanks to President Trump’s cuts to USAID, it risks finding more ...

Trans-species infection and transmission of viruses, exemplified by the emergence of influenza and COVID-19 pandemics, present significant global health ...