A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from ...

Transcendental Meditation may slow biological aging and reduce stress by improving gene expression, brain function, and ...

A USC research team discovered that a single genetic signal may be preventing both hearing and vision cells from repairing themselves. By turning off this signal in mice, they triggered cell growth in ...

Over time, plants have evolved various strategies to defend against herbivores. A new study uncovers how these plant defense ...

Study highlights the role of long-term environmental changes in the evolution of predatory behaviour in nematodes ...

You may have heard of the fantastic-sounding "dark side of the genome." This poorly studied fraction of DNA, known as ...

Cells use small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) to transfer cargo and chemical messengers to neighboring and distant cells.

Paraphrase in combination with HiFi long-read sequencing provides a single framework for resolving highly similar paralogous ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems. Now an interdisciplinary ...