Women who consumed more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) showed distinct DNA methylation patterns, mostly reduced across key gene ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes revolutionized genetic ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

Usually, when a small group of animals becomes isolated on an island, they lose genetic diversity. This puzzling little spider flipped the script.

Long dismissed as evolutionary leftovers, segments of DNA once labeled “junk” may now offer a novel way to kill off deadly ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

Experiments on yeast show that the nuclear pore complex has a central role in the loss of chromosomes associated with aging.

Could yeast and humans be any more different? Going by looks alone, probably not. But peering into our genomes reveals ...

Salk Institute researchers determine the structure of HIV protein during a newly discovered function, enabling the ...

The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain.