A microscopic organism from a freshwater pond is playing by a different set of genetic rules. The newly identified protist, ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

Genetic influences on complex traits change over the lifespan. Schoeler et al. show that cross-sectional and longitudinal studies can give different estimates of how genetic effects change with age, ...

Just a decade or two ago, you’d have to rely on your parents, grandparents, and other family members to learn more about your family’s ancestry and personal history. Ancestry wants to help you take ...

A single-celled organism scooped from an artificial pond in Oxford University Parks reads the stop signals UAA and UAG as two ...

A large study of families suggests that a child’s overall attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder traits are primarily ...

Long-read DNA testing diagnosed 35% of previously unsolved inherited muscle disease cases, detecting complex genetic changes ...

RNA therapeutics struggle to reach the right cells. A Northeastern chemist designed a carrier that steers them to specific ...

Imagine a medicine that stops seizures at their source, switches off instructions that keep a cancerous tumor growing and ...

A new interpretable deep learning framework called EnhancerDetector identifies gene enhancers from DNA sequence alone across ...

An integrative DNA and morphology study has synonymized the woodlouse genus Koreoniscus with Mongoloniscus and described ...

Cigarette smoke affects the biology of both the ovaries and testicles, providing new insight into why smoking is associated ...