For hours under the blistering sun, Raúl Servín shovels and digs his way through days filled with pain, hope and usually ...

A new study suggests that a single blood sample could soon detect multiple cancers, including liver, stomach, and lung cancer ...

Michael Malone was embraced by the ‘Carolina family’ at his introductory press conference. Here’s an inside look.

Father-of-six Paul Quinn is on trial accused of the rape attack in July 2003 A man who denies the rape of a woman - for which innocent man Andy Malkinson spent 17 years in jail - has told his trial he ...

The discovery of the oldest ever dog DNA suggests they have been our best friends for nearly 16,000 years – 5,000 years earlier than had previously been thought, new research said Wednesday. Despite ...

When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on ...

Life on Earth may have origins from far, far away. Scientists have found a full set of life-building molecules in a nearly pristine asteroid sample, and the discovery suggests that the necessary ...

Researchers at Genentech Inc. and UC Davis have worked out the structure of the RAD51 complex, which repairs breaks in DNA. When DNA experiences a double-strand break, enzymes trim back one of the two ...