A comprehensive genetic investigation led by Dr. Feng Liu at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital has uncovered ...

Researchers are investigating the role of non-coding DNA, or junk DNA, in regulating astrocytes, brain cells involved in ...

The Research Article in Genomic Psychiatry titled "Shared genetic architecture between schizophrenia and osteoporosis revealed by multilevel genomic analyses," is freely available via Open Access on 6 ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

The researchers used a genetic tool called CRISPRi that can mute DNA sections without permanently cutting them. The tool was ...

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Researchers found that sunburn disables a natural skin defense, allowing inflammation to trigger dangerous changes in cells. Understanding this process could help stop skin cancer before it starts.

While some Boomers wonder why their adult children treat visits home like dental appointments, others have cracked the code ...

Scientists photograph the elusive ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, the source of the BW43 echolocation pulse, for the first time.

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.