Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem around the world. When bacteria like E. coli no longer respond to antibiotics,...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly denounced immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally and the danger he says...
The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny biological...
When Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered a new molecule they called microRNA in the 1980s, it was a fascinating diversion from...
Two scientists, Victor Ambros (UMASS Chan Medical School in the US) and Gary Ruvkun (Harvard Medical School in the US), have won the...
As a species, humans like to think that we are fully in control of our decisions and behavior. But just below the surface, forces beyond...
Papua New Guineans, who have been genetically isolated for millennia, carry unique genes that helped them fight off infection —...
Within the last century, researchers’ understanding of genetics has undergone a profound transformation. Genes, regions of DNA that...
The human body's roughly 30 trillion cells don't need all of their genes switched on at once. Instead, cells tightly control the activity...
You have, right now inside you, a gene known as UGT1A1. But that’s so formal. Let’s just call it Eugene. Eugene holds instructions...
Doctors could use distinct patterns of gene activity in the blood to more quickly diagnose and treat children with life-threatening...
Officially, humans first appeared on Earth 4 million years ago, but new evidence reveals that ancient extraterrestrial invaders genetically...
