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.

Porcine kidney transplant into the body of a brain-dead woman at New York University Langone Medical Center in 2023. Joe ...

Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the ...

Globally, people get animal protein mostly from chickens, with pigs and cattle in second and third place. A 2023 report ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

New genetic research confirms what the oral traditions of the Picuris Pueblo people of New Mexico have long described — that ...

Humans surprisingly share a significant portion of their DNA with diverse life forms, from chimpanzees (98.8%) and bonobos ...

York-based biotech firm Aptamer Group has signed a “milestone” deal with the University of Glasgow for the use of its ...

Researchers find that air samples from pig and poultry farms and nearby residential areas in China are highly enriched with ...

Research on guinea pig embryos uncovers similarities to human embryogenesis, advancing understanding of preimplantation ...

Krystal Tsosie, Diné, stands before a mural in Eagle Butte, S.D., on the Cheyenne River Reservation. Tsosie is a geneticist, epidemiologist and advocate who has begun working toward returning ...

The human immune system immediately recognizes those animal organs and the animal tissue as foreign and attacks. So if you just took a pig’s organ, any old pig organ, and stuck it in a person on the ...