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A longitudinal study shows that puberty may reprogram children’s epigenetic profiles in ways that track worsening or improving…

Inside every cell, thousands of molecular signals collide, overlap, and compensate, obscuring the true drivers of gene expression.…

Prehistoric humans and Neanderthals didn’t just interbreed, they did so with a consistent sex bias, as male Neanderthals…

A new genomic analysis proposes that interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals was strongly sex-biased. Pairings occurred primarily…

New research suggests that zinc does far more than support immunity, revealing intricate molecular switches that may influence…

To further the quantitative understanding of cellular decision making, Dr. Gregory Reeves and his team in the chemical engineering department…

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite,…

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.…

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilised egg as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a…

A new study sheds light on the behavior of yeast cells in the gut, paving the way for…

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received an $80 million grant to continue…

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new molecule which carries DNA into biological cells, to treat…

Puberty reshapes DNA to worsen or reverse insulin resistance