Space looks dark and cold from Earth, but sunlight beyond our atmosphere is harsh in ways most of us never experience.

New research finds that indoor tanning raises the risk of developing melanoma by nearly threefold, and alters your DNA.

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Researchers at the CNIO show that oestrogens regulate gene expression by changing DNA supercoiling. Hormone-activated ...

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

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

Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...