After more than 50 years of research, scientists still don't know exactly what causes autism. But the data make clear that ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

When two homozygous plant lines with different characteristics are crossed, the resulting offspring are often more robust and ...

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study ...

Proteins are essential biological molecules that perform a vast array of functions crucial for life, from catalyzing biochemical reactions and transporting molecules to providing structural support ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...