In an international study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a gene variant that controls the body's ...

In 2008, genetic research suggested that Ötzi’s maternal lineage was extinct. His mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) carried a rare signature never observed in any living person, leading researchers to ...

The Trade-off Between Physiological Authenticity and Experimental Convenience: Navigating the Cellular Foundation of ...

Age-related changes in protein tagging and degradation may help explain how the brain declines over time and why diet can still influence these processes.

Every organism alive on Earth, from oak trees to octopuses to the bacteria in our gut, belongs to a single extended family. Genetic evidence points back to one ancestral cell, a last common forebear ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

The traditional explanation of the initial genetic code in life seems less established when ancient proteins seem to be ...

Faced with a life-threatening metabolic disease, KJ’s doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sprinted to create a ...

As investigations into Epstein’s network persist, including scrutiny of associates like Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted in 2021 for sex trafficking, the genetic emails add another layer to his enigmatic ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

Abstract: The exponential growth of data has brought full-size challenges in corporation and management. Cloud computing, with its scalability and value-performance, has become critical for data ...

The human genome is made up of about three billion pairs of DNA units called nucleotides. Olena_T via Getty Images Scientists at Google DeepMind—the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say ...