Recent research has uncovered a fascinating mechanism in the nematode worm C. elegans that could have profound implications ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

Oxford and Cambridge researchers who produced the image map which uncovers the secrets of why humans get disease say it ...

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

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

Differences between men and women in intelligence and behaviour have been proposed and disputed for decades. Now, a growing ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

Genetically modified organisms, also known as GMOs, have been a hot topic of conversation among researchers, producers, ...