A genetic analysis of polar bears in southeast Greenland found that genes related to heat-stress, aging, and metabolism are ...

Alex Yang details founding an AI startup with other high schoolers worldwide to improve Alzheimer's diagnostics.

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

New 3D genome maps reveal how DNA folding controls gene activity, offering fresh clues into disease and cell function.

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Scientists engineered stem cells with “interrupted” CAG repeats to break up the toxic stretch. This may stop expansion, and could improve problems in cells that model Huntington’s disease. This study ...

If you find yourself in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, paper statistics quickly become apparent in the real-world: The Dutch ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming medicine’s most powerful microscope, revealing patterns in human DNA that were ...

Vision scientist Michael Webster, PhD, at the University of Nevada, has shown that the environment influences color perception. He has studied how people in tropical environments might calibrate their ...

Bacteria use a short RNA guide to detect viruses and activate a self-destruct mechanism that protects the wider microbial ...

This article looks at some of the latest developments in biotech letters, exploring how new tools are helping us solve big ...