With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Greenland has changed quickly in the past 25 years. Along with new foods, jobs and habits has come a sharp rise in type 2 ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one years ...

“This suggests that longer-lived species may have evolved molecular programs that optimize splicing for longevity, allowing ...

Researchers have identified a stress-activated control mechanism that helps breast cancer cells reshape gene activity to ...

A new study shows that RNA splicing, not just gene expression, holds powerful clues to why some mammals live far longer than ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Children's National Hospital in Washington D.C. are uncovering ...