Woodrats weigh less than half a pound but can survive venomous rattlesnake bites that would hospitalize, or even kill, a full ...

JABSOM Cell and Molecular Biology researcher Dr. Jesse Owens has spent the better part of two decades chasing a vision that ...

This comprehensive e-book from The Hindu explores how gene editing tools like CRISPR and synthetic biology are fundamentally changing what it means to be human and are giving us the power to modify ...

Mo Khalil is the Hok Lam and Kathleen Kam Wong Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing ...

Obesity is not a single disease. New research shows distinct biological phenotypes that explain why weight gain and treatment ...

Researchers identify GRIN2A as a rare single-gene cause of early psychiatric disorders, with symptoms often beginning in ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Scientists in the US have unveiled a powerful new way of understanding how thousands of genes work together to cause disease.

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

Two new studies show how climate influences behavior, communication, and genome evolution—driving adaptation in a ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too large or too small are linked to many diseases. Until now, the genetic basis ...