Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

Somewhere in the frozen plains of southwestern Russia, a 40-foot circle of mammoth bones and tusks has stood for over 24,000 ...

The instructions for building and operating a human being are written with just four letters, abbreviated A,T,C and G representing four chemicals arranged like steps that are strung along in a ...

Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, has long been viewed as a predictable structural component of tissues. However, a new study challenges that notion, revealing an unexpected confirmation in ...

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

LIG4 syndrome is an exceptionally rare disorder caused by a genetic mutation that prevents the body from repairing damaged ...

Researchers uncover key mechanisms in gene regulation that may lead to better design of RNA-based medicines.

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

A Washington State University Spokane research team has made a breakthrough at the cellular level in studying the secrets of ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the molecular "blueprint" carrying the genetic instructions that influence the growth, ...