With a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Chi Zhang, Edgar Cahoon and Bin Yu will focus on the genome-wide identification of small ...

When blood cancer in children progresses particularly aggressively, it is often due to a genetic defect: a gene fusion, such ...

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's have taken a key early step in understanding why some people born with the rare disease Adams-Oliver syndrome (AOS) experience potentially fatal disruptions in ...

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...

In a study published in the journal Nucleic Acid Research, a research team at Karolinska Institutet has performed a ...

Prof. Alon Monsonego’s lab finds that ‘T helper’ blood cells, abundant in ‘super-centenarians’ in high-life-expectancy zone ...

A team of Indian scientists has discovered oral cancer-causing driver gene mutations in women patients in southern parts of ...

Ribosomes, the protein factories of the cell, are essential for all living organisms. They bind to mRNA and move along the ...

Treatment with the investigational oral, allosteric, selective AKT inhibitor engasertib appeared to be safe in patients with ...

The CDC’s recent decision to link autism to vaccines disrespects the extensive science showing that vaccines are not ...