A new study has revealed that a single genetic mutation, found in all modern humans but absent in Neanderthals and Denisovans, could have played a role in the evolution of speech and language. The ...

The carriers of the mutation have an increased risk of esophageal cancer, especially among heavy drinkers and smokers. To understand how acute liver injury occurs in living organisms when aldehyde ...

Researchers working on an incurable blood cancer can now use a new lab model that could make testing potential new treatments and diagnostics easier and quicker, new research has found. Working with ...

Complexities like these make it challenging to develop broadly applicable gene therapies for these disorders. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin now have developed an improved method of ...

Urban entomologists have discovered a gene mutation that could contribute to bed bug insecticide resistance. A global infestation of bed bugs after World War II was nearly eradicated in the 1950s with ...

A global infestation of bed bugs after World War II was nearly eradicated in the 1950s with the use of the pesticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, a chemical that has since ...