A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...

But only a tiny percentage of our DNA – around 2% – contains our 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98% – long known as the non-coding genome, or so-called ‘junk’ DNA – includes many of the switches that ...

Bacteria use a short RNA guide to detect viruses and activate a self-destruct mechanism that protects the wider microbial ...

New research shows tanning bed use nearly triples melanoma risk and causes more extensive DNA mutations than natural sunlight ...

Investigators from the laboratory of Derek Walsh, Ph.D., professor of Microbiology-Immunology, have discovered how human ...

Genetic research is rapidly overturning the idea that each psychiatric diagnosis is a separate island. Large DNA studies now ...

This important study identifies PRRT2 as an auxiliary regulator of Nav channel slow inactivation, proposing that PRRT2 facilitates entry into, and delays recovery from, the slow-inactivated state. The ...

The hunt for the shooter that left two students dead and nine injured at one of the nation’s top universities stretches into ...

Benjamin Carl Hanson, 57, of Bayport, was arrested on Wednesday on charges of hiding a corpse and felony theft in connection with the crime, which was discovered in October 2002 when Boy Scouts found ...

An overlooked community absorbs 50-100 times as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere per square meter as tropical ...

In 2025, UCL scientists made breakthroughs in Huntington’s disease, cancer and sight loss, revealed the Sun’s south pole and ...

Newly published findings from salvage dig near Afula detail discovery of burial pits where high official's remains may have ...