Take a puff of nicotine for the first time, and your DNA plays an important role, alongside social and environmental factors, in shaping what happens next. In recent years, scientists have identified ...

Cells are constantly on the move, whether in a developing embryo or metastatic cancer. But how do cells adapt to new environments they encounter? Traditionally, scientists have believed that cells ...

The lab of developmental biologist Dr. Eric Lai has been studying evolutionary battles of the sexes in fruit flies. This colorful snapshot, courtesy of the Lai Lab, depicts sperm maturation in fruit ...

Human Geneticist Dr. Neville Sanjana answers the internet’s burning questions about genetics and DNA. How are our genes related to our DNA? Does our DNA change during our lifetime? How do services ...

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While eating healthy and exercising are important for maintaining a healthy weight, so are some non-modifiable factors such as genetics. Researchers from the University of Essex found 14 “skinny genes ...

Some humans can definitely ‘run like the wind,’ leaving others behind while they zoom across the finish line. It seems these ...

Scientists from the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham have received nearly £600,000 to research how sexual development and gene shuffling within the malaria parasite could help to control ...

Findings on Fugu gene splicing could help scientists develop pufferfish transgenes for mammalian cells, say researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Fugu genome contains all the ...