The discovery of a giant virus called Ushikuvirus offers inklings into the origin and evolution of our complex cells and new ...

Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein ...

One of North America’s most endangered species is getting a new lease on life thanks to technological innovations. This past ...

In its effort to correlate genomic structure with gene function, the 4D Nucleome Consortium (4DN), led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

What started out as a medication for diabetes and weight loss is offering something quite unexpected for many women. Experts ...

Researchers have determined that condensates are electrically charged droplets that can induce voltage changes across the ...

Giant DNA viruses that infect eukaryotic cells are thought to have played a role in the evolution of life, according to the ...

Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...

Long before a liver tumor appears, a high-fat diet can push liver cells into a risky survival mode. That is the central ...

The research represents a major step forward in revealing how the three dimensional form of DNA shapes the way human biology functions. In a major step toward understanding how the physical form of ...