Learn how missing just one amino acid, fruit flies reprogram their senses to detect the microbes that can help them recover.

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a ...

How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still working hard to understand precisely how a single, ...

Molecular biologists have long believed that the beginning of a gene launched the process of transcription—the process by which a segment of DNA is copied into RNA and then RNA helps make the proteins ...

Both nature and nurture influence animal personality. The environment during development can play a crucial role in some instances. In others, genes inherited from parents can drive preferences. In ...

WHAT do Jason Statham, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Fabinho all have in common? Arguably some of the hottest men on the ...

Dal researchers and their partners used fruit flies to identify genes linked to long-term memory. Their findings, accepted by a top science journal, could illuminate human neurological disorders and ...

Researchers from Aarhus University have identified why the gene APOE4 carries a significantly higher risk of developing ...

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the ...

Interviewing the neuroscientist and primate behavior expert on a question that could radically change our understanding of ...

While many in India continue to adhere to the 9 to 5 work day and many offices have gone back to mandating their employees ...