Research reveals that our ability to digest starchy foods has much deeper roots than previously thought, potentially ...

Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

All cancer mutations that cause drug resistance fall into one of four categories. New research has detailed each type, helping to uncover targets for drug development and identify potential effective ...

For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease.

A new study gets scientists closer to more fully understanding where viruses fit into the global ocean picture of cycling nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and, of particular interest, carbon.

A new study reveals how the duplication of the salivary amylase gene may not only have helped shape human adaptation to starchy foods, but may have occurred as far back as more than 800,000 years ago, ...

Our love of french fries and other carbs dates back over 800,000 years to our cavemen ancestors, suggests a new study. The ...

Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

The gene that kick off starch digestion potentially duplicated for the first time long before farming.