When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb.

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When astronauts venture into space, a remarkable phenomenon occurs: the activation of the “dark genome” within their DNA. This discovery unveils previously unknown genetic expressions, offering new ...

Precision skin care aims to tap new insights in AI, skin biology and aging to preserve and even restore skin vitality ...

Stanford AI wrote full viral genomes that worked—16 lab-built phages show life can now be designed, not just discovered.

One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Ciara Bolt (Kresge ’24, molecular, cell and developmental biology) worked as a ...

When María Branyas Morera passed away in August 2024, she was 117 years and 168 days old, the planet’s oldest person living ...

When a sperm meets an egg, a lot has to go right for an embryo to develop into a complete organism. One critical step of ...

The global population is ageing rapidly, with the World Health Organization projecting that by 2050, over 2 billion people ...

Bacteria are constantly moving with the help of motility organs called flagella or pili to colonize new niches. Also, ...

The continually expanding toolkit from Mohit Verma’s laboratory at Purdue University now includes a portable paper-based ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark ...