Initially thought to have made the quarter-and-a-mile journey from San Francisco, which faces the southern edge of Alcatraz, ...

Study in adults and children with aplastic anemia identifies parallel evolutionary pathways used by hematopoietic stem cells to evade immune attack.

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

DNA and RNA are the molecular blueprints of life, each with unique structures and roles. DNA’s double-helix stability makes it ideal for long-term genetic storage, while RNA’s versatility powers ...

Butterflies and a moth species reused the same two genes, ivory and optix, to create similar warning colors over millions of ...

In the 1990s Venter bet that he could use a sequencing technique to speed up the decoding of the human genome and he beat an ...

In recent years, scientists have identified hundreds of different genes associated with autism, a burst of discovery that has ...

A tiny switch in DNA allows neurons to change their function depending on the environment and alter behavior in worms.

Loss of an enzyme necessary for a process called lipoylation disrupts the way cancer cells copy their DNA, increasing their ...

Gene expression is controlled, in part, by the interactions between genes and regulatory elements located along the genome.

After centuries of mystery, scientists are edging closer to uncovering Leonardo da Vinci’s biological secrets. A massive ...

Three 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners reflect on developing Luxturna, a gene therapy that treats blindness caused by rare ...