MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

Throughout life, our cells are constantly exposed to environmental and internal factors that can damage DNA. While such DNA ...

He showed that specialized cells retain the genes to form an organism.

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...

Everyone has heard of the ‘biological clock’ argument, and how women are advised to have children sooner in their lives.

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human genome—comprising about 17% of the genome. It is commonly called a "jumping gene" or ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered how cells can adjust their gene activity to survive when oxygen runs low ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered more than 100 new human viruses in 252 different gut microbes, ...

A new study on canine development found that dogs exposed to adversarial events, including abuse and abandonment, in the ...

An international study has shown how and when entirely new gene mutations, known as de novo mutations, originate in dogs. A ...