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

Analysis of 135,000 participants reveals 11 genetic regions tied to delayed gratification and shows shared biology with ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the ...

Today’s wolves and dogs share a common ancestor. But a deeper look at their genes reveals that interbreeding since dogs were domesticated 20,000 years ago hasn’t been as rare as scientists assumed.

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

Every function in a cell is associated with a particular protein or group of proteins, typically in a well-defined ...

Evo’s success wasn’t limited to proteins. When they tested a different toxin that had an RNA-based inhibitor, the system ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases – the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Why do no two human faces look quite the same? Although we all follow the same biological blueprint, our features—the curve ...

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as key regulators of genome organization and gene activity, influencing how genes are switched on and off during brain development. Among them, Evf2 plays a ...