If you're wondering why you entered menopause earlier or later than other women, blame your mother. That's because numerous studies have confirmed the role of genetics in determining a woman's age at ...

Schools around the world have closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19, leaving parents and teachers scrambling to figure out how kids can learn at home. We can help! Science News Explores and the ...

Gene editing has delivered remarkable results against sickle cell disease. Now researchers are working to make these ...

ShellBank uses DNA to trace sea turtle origins, reveal global connections, and help scientists protect endangered populations ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules of genetics. Researchers discovered hundreds of cases where these chemical ...

On a YouTube livestream, Berkeley City College students carefully study the movements of stem cells to observe what they do ...

A joint research team has developed an automated design technology that enables the creation of DNA origami structures that ...

Reconstruction of the ancestral gene repertoire of eukaryotic cells reveals traces of a series of close, long-term ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

An international research team led by Forschungszentrum Jülich and the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed an artificial ...

But what happens if the parts resemble a puzzle with a very large number of assembly possibilities? Do we then need a genome network architecture initiative (a 'GeNetMap'?) to tackle the wiring ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building to vestigial anatomy.