A new study reveals that an extremely small change in a non-coding region of DNA can dramatically alter how sex develops in ...

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Migrating newborn neurons suffer routine double-strand DNA breaks from physical stress during brain development.

Scientists cannot reliably predict whether an individual carrying certain gene variants will eventually end up obese. Put ...

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Extending life beyond current limits vs. an emphasis on preserving a healthy life presents a pressing question: Death may be a problem to be conquered, but to what end?

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

A new technology allows scientists to map, in single cells, the DNA binding sites of transcription factors and other regulatory proteins that control gene activity, according to a study led by ...

A recent study published in Nature suggests that a specific genetic sequence, which does not produce proteins, plays a ...

Aquatic genomics has become a central field in understanding how genome organization and regulatory dynamics shape phenotypic diversity and important ...