A groundbreaking study suggests that our genes may play a much larger role in our expiration date than we ever imagined.

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after injury. For some, however, muscle development goes awry, leading to weakness, ...

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

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