Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Reducing our intake of a single amino acid called methionine, which we get from the food we eat, could help protect against ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

For the first of these tasks Dr Baker and his colleagues use RF diffusion, an AI model they have developed to predict a ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could explain how the condition is inherited ...

Cells depend on the precise reading of DNA sequences to function correctly. This process, known as gene expression, ...

Each time a cell divides, a small section of each chromosome's protective cap — the telomere — is worn away. Most cells use ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

UCSF researchers recently created the world's first shape-shifting synthetic proteins using artificial intelligence (AI). The ...