Every tomato begins as a flower, but producing a ripe fruit requires a precisely timed biological sequence. The male and...

A new single-cell technology is giving researchers an unusually complete view of how individual cells establish and change their identities....

Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Chicago have developed a computational framework designed...

Parkinson’s disease has long been understood as the product of a complicated interplay between inherited susceptibility and environmental stress. Yet...

Advances in genome sequencing are opening a new window onto fetal health, allowing clinicians to examine an unborn baby’s DNA...

Scientists in Arkansas have developed a machine-learning approach that can identify potentially disease-causing strains of a poultry bacterium by analyzing...

A new comparative genetic analysis is drawing attention to the biological overlap between ageing and treatment-resistant schizophrenia, suggesting that the...

Antibiotic pollution may be doing more than selecting resistant microbes: new research suggests that mixtures of sulfonamide drugs can alter...

A sweeping genomic analysis of the spurge family has uncovered how heat shock protein 20 genes may help economically important...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry is examining how chemical changes in cortisol receptor genes may be connected to...