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The genome of your breakfast toast - or at least the wheat that goes into it - is surprisingly complex. But now an...

Writing in the journal Cancer Cell, scientists in California led by Maike Sander and Matthias Hebrok have uncovered the...

Scientists led by Guntram Borck at the University of Ulm in Germany and David Adams at the Wellcome Trust Sanger...

Writing in the journal PLoS Genetics, researchers in the US have developed a genetic “roadmap” that could speed up the...

A study using touch screen technology has shed light on how we evolved to be so intelligent, and how this development...

This is a difficult area to research, because you can’t conduct a randomised trial like you normally would to test a...

America’s Grand Canyon could be a lot older than previously thought – ancient enough that dinosaurs could have strolled...

Drug resistance is a major problem when it comes to treating cancer...

A systematic review of research into general health checks shows that, although they increase the number of diagnoses,...

Just as you can see white light, and hear white noise, it seems we are also susceptible to a white smell – or “...

Norwegian scientists are looking at turning fish farm waste into cash

Scientists have managed to make steam directly from ice-water using the power of the Sun...

A free-floating planet has been discovered in space...

Bright light exposure at night harms your health and your memory, even if you think you are sleeping normally...

Meansurements made from patient's brains while they were being anaesthetised has shed new light on how general...

Mimicking human organs and diseases in the lab could help to investigate diseases and rapidly screen compounds to find...

In Fairy-wrens, hungry chicks need to give a password to get food from their mother, and research published in Current...

Delicate stone arrowheads dating from 71,000 years ago have been unearthed in South Africa, providing the earliest...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but scientists have developed a DNA-based “smart gel” that can contract...

Researchers at the University of South Florida have tracked down a genetic change linked to old-age hearing loss.

Scientists in the US have made medical history by creating human embryos with three parents.

Medical tape that sticks strongly but peels off with less force than it takes to tear tissue paper has been invented by...

Scientists in the Netherlands have developed a way to watch cancers spreading into other organs in real time...

Dumbo the elephant may have been able to fly, but he was fictional. Now a team of German, US, Korean and Sri Lankan...