MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

Biological rhythms aren't just for sleep. In the tiny worm C. elegans, researchers in the Grosshans lab and the Computational ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Kenneth J. Breslauer, whose work helped lay the foundation for many of today’s major advances in genetics and precision ...

What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades.

Unusual preservative in specimen jars proved to be a sweet solution for studying changes in genetic diversity among fish ...

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have published an analysis that reveals new functions of the RAD21L protein—a germline-specific cohesin—crucial for male fertility. The ...

A new genetic study claims alien DNA could be inserted into humans. Dr. Max Rempel, a molecular biologist with a PhD from the ...

Scientists claim to have evidence that they discovered non-human “alien DNA” in people here on Earth and it may have been ...

A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their ...