By Mackenzie Devereux The West Nile virus is most commonly transmitted by the Culex mosquito. Jeffrey Wang/ Junior Staff Artist Over the past few weeks, the buzz of mosquito wings has ...

By Michelle Yang Researchers from Mie University in Japan used the gene editing tool CRISPR to remove the extra chromosome 21, the copy responsible for Down syndrome. Courtesy of digitale.de via ...

Left molars from the Ledi-Geraru specimen (left) and a specimen from Hadar, another fossil site in Ethiopia (right). “LD 760 molars compared to A. afarensis.” by  Villmoare et al. from Nature ...