In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal, the bowhead whale, revealing a mechanism that could potentially prolong the human lifespan ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory found that Dicer, an ancient RNA-cutting protein shared by humans and yeast, ...

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Promega Corporation has been named to the 2026 BioSpace Best Places to Work list, alongside 50 U.S. employers.

What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...

Bigger animals such as whales and elephants, should have a higher risk of succumbing to cancer as they have more cells dividing over a longer period, leaving more room for mutations.

Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned ...

As humans prepare for longer missions to the moon and Mars, scientists are trying to understand how space affects the human ...

Cyclone is a portable gene-switch system that uses acyclovir to reversibly control gene expression with minimal toxicity.

Experts have finally uncovered a 'big bang' moment which determines how bowel cancer will grow, in landmark research ...