Disease development is often shaped by genetics, with how much or how little a gene is expressed influencing disease risk.

Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.

New research on fern vascular systems reveals how developmental constraints don't just limit evolution—they generate new ...

Molecular and morphological profiles of developing neurons in vitro uncover the cellular dynamics of human neurodevelopment and related disease.

Neanderthals didn’t go extinct in a blaze of conflict—new research shows they may have quietly vanished through interbreeding ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Before cells can divide by mitosis, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can receive a full set of genetic material. Scientists have until now ...

ABSTRACT: With an estimated 20.5 million deaths from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in 2021, around 80% of these deaths will occur in low- and middle-income countries, making CVDs the leading cause of ...