What Earth’s longest-lived animals can teach us about aging better

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...
Opinion

An Iowa scientist chases a medical mystery as patients cling to breath

Haunted by the cystic fibrosis patients he could not help, one Iowa doctor commits his life to understanding what is broken deep inside their cells.
New Scientist

Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...
eLife

Human-specific lncRNAs contributed critically to human evolution by distinctly regulating gene expression

Compared with human-specific transcriptional factors, human-specific lncRNAs identified upon human lncRNAs’ orthologs in mammals have greatly evolved DNA-binding sites in archaic and modern humans in ...

Mosquitoes evolved to prefer human blood. The shift could reveal when and where early humans lived

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.