A dendritic cell and a T-cell are depicted dancing in the foreground, under the dazzling lights reflected from a disco ball. In the background, a malignant cancer cell is depicted dancing with another ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu Sequencing nearly half a million genomes, researchers show that most additive genetic influences on ...

The puzzle seems impossible: take a three-billion-letter code and predict what happens if you swap a single letter. The code we’re talking about—the human genome—stores most of its instructions in ...

From a research project that included some 5,000 individuals, scientists have found that methylation patterns are linked with age, and that older-looking methylation states may predict how much longer ...

Scientists have sequenced the largest known animal genome — and it's 30 times bigger than the human genome. The genome belongs to the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), a primeval, ...

Hand washing is advised to prevent infection with the pathogens S. aureus and E. coli, which are behind a huge numbers of deaths every year - Copyright AFP/File JENS ...

Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry.