A research team led by Professor Simona Giunta at the University of Rome La Sapienza has produced the first reference-quality ...

“While the rest of the genome shuffles between the maternal and paternal origins, centromeres are inherited intact: one from ...

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As Mary Roach tells us in “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy,” within a minute of being refilled with blood “the heart is chugging” on its own, “hanging from the rig by its aorta, beating ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have discovered that spaceflight ...

New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on ...