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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Marine viruses deploy a sophisticated Trojan horse maneuver that enables them to dismantle the energy systems of ocean ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

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

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 ...

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