A recent study shows that bacteria living inside colorectal tumors form distinct ecosystems that are closely linked to how ...

A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

The study used large-scale CRISPR gene-editing technology to systematically determine which genes are required as embryonic ...

In a study published in Nature Immunology on January 6, a research team led by Prof. Qian Youcun from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health (SINH) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Nearly 1 in 7 adults in the United States lives with chronic kidney disease, a condition that often advances quietly until ...

An Australian study has shed light on a pest you’ve probably hosted at some point – and it has unearthed a new theory about ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...

A newly identified and rare genetic variant slows the growth of mutated blood stem cells and reduces the risk of leukemia.

A newly identified and rare genetic variant slows the growth of mutated blood stem cells, researchers report, and it reduces the risk of leukemia. The ...

The new analysis study showed the delay may stem from genetic mutations that are present when a child is born – but activate ...

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...