A new study finds the proteins responsible for controlling which genes are expressed in a genome do more than simply turn a ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have made an important advance toward understanding—and potentially ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

Cancer cells excel at evading detection, but subtle chemical differences set them apart from healthy cells. Now, a team of ...

For the first time, a research team at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) has succeeded in ...

Scientists now recognize that spontaneous DNA errors, which we acquire in early development all the way until our last breath ...

This important study advances a new computational approach to measure and visualize gene expression specificity across different tissues and cell types. The framework is potentially helpful for ...

Serially cloned mice hit a genetic “dead end” by generation 58, underscoring that sex evolved for variation, purging harmful ...

For most animals, survival is a game of chance. Sexual reproduction mixes DNA, keeping the gene pool diverse and giving ...