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At WIRED Health 2025, Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui and genomics pioneer George Church laid out their view of the future of ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Your period can reveal more than you think. A gynaecologist explains how cycle patterns, flow changes, and pain may signal key aspects of fertility and health.

The Trump administration is plotting to undo a quarter-century of policy for the protection of national forests against new road building. This is a ...

Researchers at EPFL have created the first 4D lipid atlas of vertebrate development, revealing how fats shape our bodies from ...

An organoid-based screening platform that allows one-gene-at-a-time knockdown across a whole tissue has been used to identify the genes that regulate closure of the neural tube in humans.

Scientists are making new discoveries every day, but many of them fall under the radar. Some of these findings are ...

The report of the UN’s independent international commission of inquiry on Palestine, released this week, makes for gruelling ...

Israel’s ground incursion escalates its war in defiance of international condemnation and backlash from the families of ...

Williams explained that – in most people – sex chromosomes, other genes, sexual organs, internal organs and external organs ...