For decades, the idea of a “ticking biological clock” has been aimed almost entirely at women.

A newly revealed “aging cliff” in sperm RNA marks a conserved molecular transition from youth to later life, offering fresh insight into how a father’s age may influence the earliest stages of ...

The origin of life from Earth's primordial chemistry has long fascinated and perplexed us. Generations of scientists have endeavored to understand how complex biochemistry developed from organic ...

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

The study, published in Genomic Psychiatry, identified how stress hormones activate specific RNA molecules called long ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

The process by which glycoRNAs are created and deployed to the cell surface has been identified by Boston Children’s Hospital researchers.

City St. George’s researchers identified 9 genetic signatures and epigenetic changes driving lapatinib resistance in HER2-positive breast cancer. Cancer scientists from City St George’s, University of ...

When scientists sequence tumor DNA, they typically find small amounts of genetic code from bacteria, viruses and fungi—microorganisms that—if actually present in tumor tissues—could influence how they ...

Virtually every aspect of your health can be traced back to your microbiome. But some tests are better than others.

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system not by accident but by actively switching off internal danger signals through ...

A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma ...