Elizabeth Finkel

Zoos Victoria staff were heartbroken this week at the death of the much-loved matriarch Western Lowland Gorilla, Yuska. At 51, Yuska was one of the oldest

We know that because indigenous Papuans and Australians carry their DNA – around 4% was bequeathed by a Denisovan ancestor.

One of the largest and most rigorous clinical trials to test ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment has just published its results.

By targeting RNA with CRISPR-Cas13, scientists are creating antiviral drugs to beat viruses like SARS-CoV-2 at their own game.

Are COVID-19 vaccines experimental? Yes – to the extent that any vaccine against a new strain of virus raises new safety issues.

The COVID vaccines have rare – but serious – side effects. Based on 21 million vaccinated Australians (and 5.6 billion globally) we can base our calculation

Last July, for the first time, subsistence farmers in Nigeria planted a new variety of genetically modified (GM) cowpea – and it promises to bolster food

Last July, for the first time, subsistence farmers in Nigeria planted a new variety of genetically modified (GM) cowpea – and it promises to bolster food

Daniel Stefanski was a third-year medical student in 1994 when he attended a lecture that changed his life. The lecturer strode purposefully into the room, a

It began as a joke. A paleoanthropologist, a geneticist and a blood specialist were hanging around an espresso machine – and one of them wondered: how would