Polar bears are undergoing rapid genetic changes as Arctic temperatures rise, with "jumping genes" activating to help them ...

In a study published in Genome Research, a team of researchers, including Cornell College Assistant Professor of Biology ...

New research reveals a link between rising temperatures and changes in polar bear DNA, which may be helping them adapt and ...

From rare diseases to chronic conditions, epigenetic editing unlocks new ways to control gene activity without altering the genetic code.

Gene Weierbach, a North Whitehall resident who operated an auto repair shop on his property for 24 years, argued that the ...

Trailblazing geneticist Pengfei Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor ...

Analysis of more than one million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

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To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning stretches across your life, your children's, and your family's. To many, the genome is a puzzle—a many-sided puzzle whose meaning ...

Around 25 million Americans have a rare genetic disease, and many of them struggle with not only a lack of effective treatments, but also a lack of good information about their disease. Clinicians may ...