In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hundreds of millions of new cases of bacterial sexually transmitted ...
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and ...
On this episode of Hacking Humans, we are going old school with Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan sans T-Minus host Maria Varmazis (as she was hanging out with astronauts at the SpaceCom event). Not to ...
Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.
Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...
A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...
UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.
The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...
Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans being nourished by their protein-rich milk and clothed by warm, ...
When you think about scientific research, you probably envision a sterile room that houses gleaming beakers, rows of pipettes and centrifuges. But what if you could house a lab on a chip?