Learn how tardigrades are able to tolerate extreme radiation with a unique protein that unwinds their DNA.

A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of ...

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a ...

Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling ...

After birth, the gene which makes new heart cells turns off, meaning that the heart cannot repair itself. But scientists have shown that injecting that gene back into damaged middle-aged donor hearts ...