A University of Houston psychology professor is challenging the notion that dyslexia, or specific reading disorder, stems ...

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, ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

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

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

City heat, pollution, and pesticides helped spotted lanternflies evolve traits that made them highly successful invaders, new ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to ...

A new genetic study has revealed that the people of Deep Mani, who inhabit one of the remotest regions of mainland Greece, represent one of the most genetically distinctive populations in Europe, ...

Cancer biology is a rapidly evolving field, with pathology and biomarker research at the forefront of innovations in ...

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

Wolfgang Epstein, professor emeritus of molecular genetics and cell biology and a frontier researcher in molecular genetics, ...

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