Professor Idit Maya, a senior physician and manager of the Nephrogenetic Clinic and Genomic School for Physicians at Rabin ...

In patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), crucial cells in the retina known as rods and cones die over time; night ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the ...

Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

Understanding human gene function in living organisms has long been hampered by fundamental differences between species.

In a new study, Chinese researchers have discovered the previously unrecognized role of alternative splicing of the DOC2A ...

Understanding the genetic mechanisms linking genome variations, such as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), to phenotypes ...

Professor Paul Colombo has studied music-based mentoring, memory, and the benefits of music training over the course of his ...