Recent research published in Nature Neuroscience provides a detailed cellular map of how physical activity remodels the brain ...

A newly identified and rare genetic variant slows the growth of mutated blood stem cells and reduces the risk of leukemia.

A trio of mRNA molecules could help guard against the harmful effects of aging on immune cells, a study in mice finds.

Rapid advances in sequencing technologies have transformed our ability to diagnose human genetic disorders, yet many patients still lack a molecular ...

Sean Ryder, professor at UMass Chan Medical School, has written a book to delve the mysteries of ribonucleic acid as a tool to fight diseases. Messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA, is in the public ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

Fathers exposed to microplastics before conception may be setting their daughters up for metabolic problems later in life.

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

Ribosomes—the tiny factories that build proteins in our cells—don't all work with the same efficiency. Researchers from Japan ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have discovered a tiny molecule in the liver that plays a big role in ...

Scientists are revealing mroe about why TDP-43 has long been linked to the neurodegenerative disorders Alzheimer's, FTD, and ...