Multiple copies of amylase genes presumably allowed agrarian societies to more efficiently extract energy from a diet high in ...

Gene-editing therapies—techniques that modify DNA to treat or prevent disease—have the potential to transform the field of ...

Radiation is a form of energy emitted as waves or particles, and it can be categorized into ionizing and non-ionizing types, ...

New COVID-19 strains are emerging and with it the need for updated vaccines to protect people from the virus. So how do researchers quickly update shots to keep up with mutations?

Researchers, supported by the NIH's BRAIN Initiative, have created a comprehensive map of the fruit fly brain, identifying ...

Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine at Windber, Pa., is the central biobank for U.S. Department of Defense ...

Ahead of its digital release this November, a trailer and poster have arrived online for writer-director Kelsey Egan’s sci-fi ...

Biophysical chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered a previously hidden landscape that governs the intracellular organization and dynamics of SWI/SNF chromatin ...

The human avian flu has yet to pass from human to human, but state gene detectives are on the lookout for mutations.

Researchers obtain detailed picture of the specific mechanisms by which each individual mutation studied impacts drug response.

All cancer mutations that cause drug resistance fall into one of four categories. New research has detailed each type, helping to uncover targets for drug development and identify potential effective ...

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks ...