Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere have linked loneliness in patients with chronic leg ...

Living cells are fundamentally nonequilibrium systems, meaning they constantly spend energy through seemingly one-way, ...

In back-to-back studies published in Nature, researchers from Purdue University and Columbia University report a naturally ...

For the millions of people who carry the gene APOE4, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, their ...

Understanding gene expression within the body has been a boon for 21st century biology and therapeutics, but most discoveries ...

What do your genes have to do with growing old? Quite a lot. But is it due to the actual DNA, or the way those genes are expressed? KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge has more on new research that ...

Erica Periandri and Gabor Egervari, from Washington University in St. Louis, led a study to explore how alcohol exposure in ...

What if you could flip a genetic switch to silence a gene, then turn it back on with a simple drug? For researchers, gene-switch tools offer that kind of control—and a new system called Cyclone may ...

Researchers discover a protein that connects GLP-1 drugs to long-term, broad genomic responses that can promote pancreatic ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species on Earth. Yet humans share ...