But E. coli is a blip in a rich microbial world; in an age of rapidly advancing technology, scientists are routinely ...

Scientists discovered that DNA mutations influence aging by altering epigenetic changes and biological clocks.

Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functions ...

In a study published in Nature, researchers report the successful in vitro reconstitution of meiotic DNA double-strand breaks ...

A new study draws a line between random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic changes used to measure biological aging ...

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with ...

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new ...

A groundbreaking study has identified how previously mysterious mutations in non-coding DNA contribute to kidney disease, ...

Short sleeper syndrome (SSS) refers to people who naturally and routinely sleep for less than six hours – usually between ...

“Now we’re kind of looking back on why those epigenetic clocks tick, and it appears it might be through changes in our DNA in the form of mutations,” Koch said. Researchers say conclusive ...

When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...