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 ...

Female life expectancy is significantly higher than that of men in almost every region of the planet, a trend consistently ...

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 ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered a surprising link between a tiny cellular engine and the way cancer cells ...

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

Scientists at Northwestern Medicine have developed a new genetic risk score that predicts who is most likely to experience irregular or dangerous heart rhythms. The test merges several types of ...

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

A Yale research team has created a new imaging technique that reveals the hidden connections between aging, disease, and genetic activity in human cells. Using a novel machine learning approach, the ...

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 ...