Engineers and biologists at Dartmouth College have found that, just like word order affects meaning in a sentence, the ...

In many animals, skin coloration and its patterns play a crucial role in camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In ...

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Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered how a testis-specific protein contributes to tumor growth and progression in lung cancer, according to a study published in Science Advances.

Scientists found a genetic link between autism and DM1, where repeat DNA sequences disrupt brain gene splicing. This sheds ...

The thymus is a crucial training ground for T-cells, the body's "white knights," where they learn to battle the various diseases they may encounter. Thymic function shrinks to nearly nothing as we age ...

Scientists have been trying to identify the exact causes of Alzheimer's disease for many years, and we know that pathologies ...

Deep learning and ATAC-seq uncover noncoding variants linked to gene regulation and disease in human liver cells.

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That's because sex — and gender roles, too —permeates all the way down to the most unreproductive of cell types. If you want to do science about animals including humans, sex as a biological variable ...