Across the UK, Black students remain significantly underrepresented in doctoral programmes. This is despite years of widening ...

Hidden for 7,000 years beneath the sands of the Sahara, two mummified bodies have revealed a genetic mystery with no known ...

The video explores whether the Barbary lion, once native to North Africa, may still exist in some form today. Scientists examine historical records, extinction timelines, and modern genetic evidence ...

DNA from 2,000-year-old lentils reveals key genes for protecting crops from heat and the current global climate crisis.

Researchers have uncovered the remains of two 7,000-year-old female herders in the Takarkori rock shelter in the southwestern ...

A new study, jointly led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) ...

A mutation that causes resistance to pyrethroid insecticides—used in mosquito bed nets—was identified in the Anopheles gambiae mosquito.

A new study has detected a DNA marker in a gene encoding a key enzyme known as cytochrome P450 that helps mosquitoes to break ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

A new study has revealed that two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara Desert belong to a previously unknown branch of ...

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle that appears to be crucial for reproduction. This is important because ...