The US Office of Technology Assessment, an independent office created by Congress in the early 1970s, produced some 750 reports during its 23-year history, assessing technologies as varied as ...

In parts of the world where traveling to a clinic for routine blood tests is a financial and logistical challenge, HIV ...

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Scientists have developed a breakthrough method to track diet using stool metagenomic data. This non-invasive, data-driven approach offers an objective alternative to traditional food diaries and ...

Scientists have developed a lipid nanoparticle system capable of delivering messenger RNA (mRNA) to the brain via intravenous injection, a challenge that has long been limited by the protective nature ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester—in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo—have ...

Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role. They say the evolution of this singular ability ...

Many studies are revealing that the total content of structural variants in the human genome could equal or exceed that of SNPs. Structural variants often coincide with low-copy repeat DNA (also ...

At NC State University, an English professor is searching for clues from the past. He's looked back as far as the eighth ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?