These factors work together to create significant differences in how quickly people recover from illness or injury.

Researchers engineered a new gene system in the parasite A. deanei using a bacteriophage enzyme and novel drug markers. This ...

Why are men generally taller than women? A groundbreaking study has uncovered a genetic secret that might just hold the ...

The structure of a cell’s nucleus has long served as a visible clue to whether a cell is healthy or affected by disease.

Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During ...

This valuable study investigates how stochastic and deterministic factors are integrated during cellular decision-making, particularly in situations where cells differentiate into distinct fates ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body — and can clarify how diseases develop.

There are more male orange cats than females because this gene is located on the X-chromosome, which males only have one copy ...

Associate professor Margaret Worthington supervised the project to identify the genetic pinpoints that could pave the way for breeders to speed up development of thornless varieties of blackberries.

In female mammals, one of the two X chromosomes randomly shuts down in each cell during early development ... knowing it was somewhere on the X chromosome but unable to pinpoint its exact location.

Ask scientists which gene-editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they'd probably describe a system that's now close to realization in the labs of Samuel Sternberg at Columbia ...