Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...

Genetic research is finally starting to explain how DNA risk scores translate into real disease, not just in single genes but ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

JABSOM Cell and Molecular Biology researcher Dr. Jesse Owens has spent the better part of two decades chasing a vision that ...

With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

If something similar occurs in humans, and given growing evidence that the gut microbiome matters for health, genetic ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic ...