With more than 250 peer-reviewed papers published in several high-impact journals, Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD, has opened the ...

Mr. Brady became the latest celebrity to try to preserve a pet’s genetics, a move that animal rights groups have criticized.

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

Neurologist says walking is the best medicine and if one walks 5,000 steps a day, one can actually lower the risk of getting ...

Susan Lois Hamilton, chair of the Department of Integrated Physiology, received her Ph.D. in biophysics from the University ...

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.

Priority Research Communication by Professor Yogesh Dwivedi and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reports original, peer-reviewed findings demonstrating that long noncoding RNAs ...

Researchers are studying development of human pre-implantation embryos in an effort to improve success of embryo growth and development.

The AHA grants this designation to scientists who advance research in cardiovascular, stroke, and brain health.

For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan, along with her husband Mark Zuckerberg, have focused part of their philanthropy on a ...