Scientists have discovered that a single gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness—something previously thought to stem only from many genes acting together. People with certain variants of this ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global issue that threatens both animal and human health. In veterinary systems, ...

As eukaryotic cells started to form, eukaryotic traits may have emerged in early cells about one billion years before the ...

Neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, and multiple sclerosis, are major causes of disability and mortality, ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a powerful new AI tool called Splam that can identify where splicing occurs in genes—an advance that could help scientists analyze genetic data with greater ...

For millennia, evolution has intrigued many great thinkers, prompting questions about how new traits emerge as species adapt over time. Then, attention shifted to natural selection and the inheritance ...

Genes encode proteins and proteins dictate cell function. Therefore, the thousands of genes expressed in a particular cell determine what that cell can do. Moreover, each step in the flow of ...

What do your genes have to do with growing old? Quite a lot. But is it due to the actual DNA, or the way those genes are expressed? KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge has more on new research that ...