Researchers found lead bands in 73 percent of 51 fossilized teeth spanning two million years of hominin history.

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

A new study published in Science Advances has revealed that humans have been exposed to lead for over two million years. The ...

Research reveals that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals encountered unexpected levels of lead exposure, shaping how our ...

Jeffrey Craig has received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. He is the Patron of the Australian Multiple Birth Organisation, and a Member of the International Society of ...

DNA methylation is a key epigenome component that helps dictate how genes are expressed, contributing to normal cell and tissue differentiation during development, as well as the process of biological ...

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies. His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, ...

Scientists in the laboratory of David Liu, PhD, at the Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard University, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have designed an improved version of prime editing ...