Elaine Duncan (left) is a final year PhD student at the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK), where she is developing a 3D ...

Researchers have revealed the truth about Pompeii’s history and societal structure thanks to ancient DNA analyses.

A polymer has been developed to optimize the use of a peptide to treat Huntington’s disease in mice.

In this feature, we learn about the genomic and anthropological integration of data informing human population histories.

The John Maddox Prize, named after the former editor of Nature (London, UK) who championed good scientific communication, is ...

This year’s annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Neuroscience 2024 (5–9 October; Chicago, IL, USA), as always, covered a wide range of topics to reflect the diversity of its members.

Caitlin Mills discusses the drug screening assay her lab developed to investigate small molecule kinase inhibitors.

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing are intricately linked and vital to many fields in the life sciences. First invented in 1983, PCR is used to dramatically amplify DNA in a matter of ...