Ritvik Gupta, a junior at Johnson High School, has been named a National STEM champion, one of only two students from Iowa to receive this honor.Gupta gained r ...

The study revealed that a gene common in some bats can reduce the production of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by up to 90%, which could help lead to new medical approaches to combating viral diseases.

Five years removed from the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists around the world are still studying its effects and, more importantly, ways those effects ...

Professor David Ray’s laboratory in the Department of Biological Sciences helped identify genetic components in bats that provide insight into their immune systems.

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could ...

A new study has greatly expanded the number of gene variants thought to be tied to bipolar disorder. Scientists have ...

Yerba mate, along with tea and coffee, is one of the world's most popular caffeinated beverages. Widely consumed in South ...

Genomic sequencing, which deciphers the entire viral genome, is more ambitious ... according to a National Institutes of ...

The most advanced engineering of human cell lines to date has been accomplished by scientists, demonstrating that genomes are more robust against significant structural changes than previously ...

Structural variants in the human genome include cytogenetically detectable and submicroscopic deletions, duplications, large-scale copy-number variants, inversions and translocations. The ability ...

MIT chemists found a new way to determine 3D genome structures, using generative AI, that can predict thousands of genome structures in minutes, making it much speedier than existing methods for ...