Scientists extracted RNA from a 130-year-old specimen, uncovering which genes were active before the animal went extinct.

Rapid advances in sequencing technologies have transformed our ability to diagnose human genetic disorders, yet many patients still lack a molecular ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

A newly identified class of RNA molecules has been discovered in bacteria living inside the human body. These circular ...

Fathers exposed to microplastics before conception may be setting their daughters up for metabolic problems later in life.

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A fatty diet doesn’t just damage the liver — it rewires its cells in ways that give cancer a dangerous head start.

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Liver cells exposed to a high fat diet revert to an immature state that is more susceptible to cancer-causing mutations.

New method ASPEN accurately maps gene activity from each parent in individual cells, overcoming noise in data. It revealed ...

A new study in Engineering reveals how macrophage-released U2AF1 aids heart repair after heart attack by steering Yap1 splicing toward the ...