The cooperation that characterized the international Human Genome Project (HGP) is shifting rapidly towards competition as the project's members vie to decipher the genetic codes of other species.

In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

The Dog Aging Project enrolled 50,000 companion animals to track aging as it naturally unfolds. The first major findings from ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

As Florida’s citrus season begins, stretching from October through May, orange trees hang heavy with ripe fruit, bursting with vitamin C and antioxidants just as cold and flu season arrives. It’s as ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...

The human body relies on precise genetic instructions to function, and cancer begins when these instructions get scrambled.

The team found that neurons from individuals with postmortem CTE diagnoses had specific abnormal patterns of somatic genome ...

"These RNAs seem to act like postal codes for gene repression," said Dr. Anuj K. Verma, lead author of the study. "They help direct the polycomb complex to precise chromatin neighborhoods where stress ...

Chinese scientists have analyzed the genomes and physical characteristics of nearly 1,000 macaques to provide domestic ...