Rice University bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells.

Bits of DNA from mitochondria can skip surprisingly fast into our genome and may reduce lifespan M ost of us remember two ...

Henry, a 124-year-old Nile crocodile, has been defying nature and expectations from his home at Crocworld Conservation Centre ...

Detailed mapping of 1.2 million brain cells has revealed that not all cell types age in the same way and that some – found in ...

Fighting cancer can seem like a deadly game of chance. While some patients may respond well to certain treatments, others might not be as fortunate. Doctors and scientists have long struggled to ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species on Earth. Yet humans share ...

By adapting artificial intelligence models known as large language models, researchers have made great progress in their ...

He explores how flaws in the transcription and DNA repair pathways contribute to cancer predisposition, accelerated aging ...

New work by Columbia researchers has turned a textbook principle of genetics on its head and revealed why some people who carry ...