Scientists at Mount Sinai have discovered a gene that can make the human heart repair itself. By reactivating the dormant ...

Researchers at McMaster University have discovered that the eyes may offer a powerful, non-invasive way to assess heart ...

Dr. Katz's research shows how important it is for all breast cancer survivors to have access to genetic testing services, ...

Migratory birds, sea turtles and salmon have something in common: every year, they return to their birthplaces to reproduce.

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

By Saturday morning, the two space complexes in central Florida are hoping to have launched five missions in one week, ...

The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really save lives.

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France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it ...

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

Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have described a new way to produce large amounts of xanthommatin, a natural pigment, in a bacterium for the first time. Xanthommatin ...

Targeting a specialized group of histones is safe and opens new therapeutic opportunities for treating blood cancers. This is the main finding of the latest research by Dr. Marcus Buschbeck and Dr.