A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

A Virat Kohli look-alike kid has gone viral. Experts explain why some children resemble celebrities, and the science behind doppelgängers and identical twins.

The Vande Bharat Sleeper will operate with a limited set of reservation quotas, covering senior citizens, women passengers, ...

DNA reveals that in prehistoric China, men remained in their community, while women joined new family lineages.

A research team at The University of Osaka revealed that the loss of heterochromatin can cause a chain reaction leading to ...

The longest living vertebrate on Earth may have a thing or two to teach us about maintaining our eyesight into old age. New ...

In its effort to correlate genomic structure with gene function, the 4D Nucleome Consortium (4DN), led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., ...

Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...