Cross-species research shows that RNA splicing patterns, not just gene activity, track maximum lifespan in mammals, revealing ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

New spatial transcriptomics approach combined with machine learning maps gene expression across whole mouse body sections, ...

Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere have linked loneliness in patients with chronic leg ...

In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally ...

What do your genes have to do with growing old? Quite a lot. But is it due to the actual DNA, or the way those genes are expressed? KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge has more on new research that ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species on Earth. Yet humans share ...

Researchers at the Jackson Laboratory (JAX), the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Yale University, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to design thousands of new DNA switches that can ...

Erica Periandri and Gabor Egervari, from Washington University in St. Louis, led a study to explore how alcohol exposure in ...