A tiny aquatic animal is offering scientists a new explanation for one of biology’s most persistent mysteries: how a mother’s...

Researchers at Dongguk University in South Korea have developed an electromagnetic-field-responsive gene switch that can activate and deactivate genes inside...

A new study is giving scientists an unusually detailed view of how the maize embryo builds its first leaves, using...

Primary human myeloid cells are emerging as important components of next-generation immunotherapies, but they have traditionally been difficult to engineer...

Researchers in Japan have uncovered how plants distinguish dangerous “jumping genes” from essential genes when establishing DNA methylation, a chemical...

Researchers have identified a previously unrecognized set of genetic changes in Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the most severe...

A new study published in Nature Communications presents a genome-wide map of the genetic signals that influence protein levels in...

Parkinson’s disease may leave a molecular trail in the bloodstream long before its most disabling symptoms become impossible to miss....

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry is drawing attention to a central mystery in addiction science: why can the...

A century of preserved human tissue may soon become a far richer source of medical information. Researchers at Vanderbilt University...