At first glance, it looked like a genetic error — so severe it should have crippled the animal. But instead, it helped turn ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic "marks" in a transition state between ...

The flowerpot snake, one of the world's smallest snakes, has some unusual distinctions. Also known as the Brahminy blind ...

Researchers harness the power of the world’s most advanced supercomputers to simulate the inner workings of cellular ...

Scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic 'marks' in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells may keep at least a ...

Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have discovered a new function of the DNA repair protein ATR in regulating ...

The goal of genome editing technology is to develop strategies for the correction of those mutations that are responsible of ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic "marks" in a transition state between ...

A new study has revealed that Beagle dogs carrying mutations in the Shank3 gene—a high-risk gene for autism spectrum disorder (ASD)—exhibit face-processing abnormalities similar to those observed in ...