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Using the powerful anesthetic propofol, researchers have begun to pick apart how human brain activity gives rise to consciousness

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The skeletons were found in San Diego’s La Jolla community in 1976 by an archaeology class digging on land owned by the University of California, San Diego. In 2006, a group of tribes laid claim to the skeletons, and the university later agreed to transfer custody. To block the transfer, the scientists went to court

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A scientist sought the Vatican’s approval for mixing human cells in animal embryos. And the Pope said yes

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The mosquito is the most dangerous animal in the world, carrying diseases that kill one million people a year. Now the Zika virus, which is carried by mosquitoes, has been linked with thousands of babies born with brain defects in South America. Should the insects be wiped out?

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When is $100 million not $100 million? When it’s a proxy, maybe even something akin to a bet. The nice, round figure is the target initial public offering value for Editas Medicine, a biotechnology firm with a mission of using gene editing to treat disease

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Jennifer Doudna, a pioneer of the revolutionary genome-editing technology, reflects on how 2015 became the most intense year of her career — and what she’s learnt

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Mars missions, carbon capture and gravitational waves are set to shape the year

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Once the three-billion-letter-long human genome was sequenced, we rushed into a new “omics” era of biological research. Scientists are now racing to sequence the genomes (all the genes) or proteomes (all the proteins) of various organisms – and in the process are compiling massive amounts of data

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