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

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in a gene codes for a unique ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in ...

Did you know that paternal health before conception can affect how smoothly a pregnancy progresses? Dr Mezher explains how.

While the brain itself doesn’t have any nerve sensors to feel pain, blood vessels in the head and structures that protect and surround the brain do sense pain. When these tissues detect injury or ...

Katherine Cooper's teenage daughter Ella Gray, wrote a book to to share with the world what it's like to be her ...

The vestibular system, a set of structures in the inner ears that helps with balance, may grant the birds their special ...

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

Engineers, like evolution, are tinkerers. Few vehicles showcase how one car can spread into multiple roles quite like ...

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 ...

Boston startup Bystro AI believes the mail-in genetic tests used by millions to trace their ancestry could also help people ...