"There's also emerging evidence from our research team that sex differences impact epigenetics: how your behaviors and ...

T cells are white blood cells that are important for adaptive immunity. They have unique cell surface receptors that are generated by randomly assorting genes. These receptors allow T cells to ...

Archaeology is the study of the artefacts and other physical evidence left by past societies of humans and closely related species. It uses scientific analysis of field samples to inform ...

Australia, with its many unique species, high rate of extinction, and real opportunities to protect and repair nature, has an important part to ... Australia and 43 other countries submitted full ...

Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. It develops when skin cells multiply rapidly as a consequence of mutations in their DNA caused by UV exposure. Melanomas originate in the pigment ...

National Geographic The photos capture animals, people, and nature coexisting in fascinating ways. Among the 20 images is a shot of a rare black tiger, a big cat that gets its name from its extra ...

Epigenetics, health, and disease. Heijmans B, Tobi E, Stein A et al. Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

To find out more, we examined the health benefits of access to nature in 20 national parks within 60 kilometres of central Adelaide over the 2018–19 financial year. To work out how many people ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse ...

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The term epigenetics was first used by a Cambridge alumnus, Conrad Waddington, in the 1940s (before the discovery of the structure of DNA). The prefix ‘epi’ is derived from the Greek meaning ‘on’ or ...