Researchers are investigating how plants use “natural genetic engineering” to borrow genes from other species and adapt more ...

People often compare the genome to a computer's program, with the cell using its genetic code to process environmental inputs ...

Scientists report that the naked mole rat’s age-defying superpower likely relates to a protein called cGAS (or cyclic ...

Naked mole rat's unique DNA repair mechanism may hold key to longevity and age-related research breakthroughs.

Everywhere you go, you carry a population of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract that outnumber the human cells making up ...

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in collaboration with Roche, have developed a next-generation ...

Using advanced imaging and genetic tools, the researchers discovered that a specific group of inhibitory neurons in the ...

In a paper published in PNAS, a University of Michigan team proposes that fundamental principles of control theory and observability can be applied to study biological processes that change over time.

MIT and Harvard scientists have designed an advanced type of immune cell called a CAR-NK cell that can destroy cancer while ...

The community of microbes in the human digestive tract have important implications for health in the gut, brain and immune ...

Scientists have discovered a method to induce human endothelial cells from a small biopsy sample to multiply in the ...