The guinea pig has long been used for studies in developmental biology and is very similar to humans in terms of general ...

A new study reveal for the first time that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, ...

Officials at ARM, ASGCT, and ISCT convened a small group of scientists, policy experts, religious leaders and patient ...

However, new research has not only challenged this view, it has simultaneously spawned a new mystery surrounding human evolution. Using full genome sequencing, researchers discovered that modern ...

What's more, according to their analysis of modern human DNA, one of these isolated populations left a stronger legacy in our genes than the other. "The question of where we come from is one that has ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years from which to fully recover. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ...

You can get in touch with Ian by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English. A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: When did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 ...

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single ...

Long-term effects on human genetics are still being studied, but shielding technologies are a major focus for future missions. Scientists are researching protective materials and even pharmaceutical ...

For decades, the Turing Test was considered the ultimate benchmark to determine whether computers could match human intelligence. Created in 1950, the “imitation game”, as Alan Turing called ...

There isn't any reason to suggest that human intellect has been harmed, the publication counters — but in "both potential and execution," our intelligence is definitely on the downturn.