Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

For years, the standard line in longevity research was that genes only nudged the odds of a long life while lifestyle and ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why African-American patients survive for half as long as their counterparts of European ...

New twin‑study research finds that, after removing deaths from accidents and infections, genes account for about 50% of human ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one years ...

Monash University researchers, in collaboration with Harvard University, have discovered how to permanently "switch off" ...

A duplicated gene evolved into a switch that determines sex in frogs, revealing how evolution can safely reshape critical ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...

Deep-learning model decodes the regulatory effects of DNA changes ...