Our genome isn’t as peaceful as it looks—some DNA elements are constantly trying to disrupt it. Scientists studying fruit ...

Madison’s new Wisconsin Nathan Shock Center discusses his aims for the center focusing on the role of metabolism in aging.

A Missouri House committee has advanced legislation that would permanently limit transgender student participation in school ...

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s ...

SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Tiny versions of chromosomes show up in things like birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During ...

In his book, 'On the Future of Species Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence' he imagines a future ...

The tool helps scientists understand how single-letter mutations and distant DNA regions influence gene activity, shaping ...

In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice is stuck in a never-ending race with the Red Queen yet never gains a ...

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...