Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

For decades, psychiatrists have told patients that conditions like schizophrenia and severe depression arise from a tangled ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Complex life may have started its rise in Earth’s oxygen-free oceans nearly a billion years earlier than anyone imagined.

NYU biologists identified the unique transcriptional machinery that ants use to choose a single scent receptor out of the 500 ...

Fusion oncoproteins arise when a gene fuses with another gene and acquires new abilities. Such abilities can include the ...

In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one years ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

This month Genome Research publishes a special issue highlighting novel advances in computational biology. In collaboration ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

The choreographed movements that cells perform to form complex biological shapes, like our hands, have fascinated scientists for centuries. Now, researchers at EMBL Barcelona have launched LimbNET, an ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...