New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...

Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is ...

Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is turned on, the production of proteins or other substances is promoted; when ...

A gene-editing tool that can turn genes on and off like a light switch has been developed. Turning a gene on means activating the production of ...

Scientists announced the Biodiversity Cell Atlas project to map every cell type across all eukaryotic life on Earth.

Scientists studying tiny roundworms have uncovered how the secrets of a long life can be passed from parents to their ...

Iridoids are a widespread and evolutionarily ancient class of plant secondary metabolites belonging to the terpenes. They ...

Bacterial fragments called peptidoglycans may influence daily sleep patterns and also affect the brain health cycle strongly.

In a development that could help protect one of the world's most beloved agricultural commodities, a research team at Penn State has successfully created disease-resistant cacao plants using ...