For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

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Getsitecontrol, the email marketing platform for ecommerce, has released a redesigned widget editor that offers complete visual control when designing website popups, forms, and teasers. Built on a ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

Violet herself is a hollow shell with no motivations outside of doing what others tell her to do, as well as being ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human ...

Thanks to genetic science, gene editing, and techniques like cloning, it’s now possible to move DNA through time, studying ...

While codons (combinations of three nucleotides) may vary in which do what functions, a long-standing rule was that each codon serves one specific purpose. New evidence, however suggests that ...

An AI powerful enough to analyze DNA, file taxes, and grow tomato plants is being redesigned for everyday work, pointing ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...