A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant ...

Maize serves as a vital model species for advancing our understanding of plant biology, yet many mysteries remain about the ...

An international team of researchers has taken an important step toward understanding how gene expression is controlled across the human genome. The research is published in the journal Nature. The ...

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk", may actually play powerful roles in regulating gene expression. Focusing ...

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a ...

A recent study examines why Alzheimer's presents and progresses differently in individuals using advanced biological analysis ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study has revealed how a common inherited mutation disrupts red blood cell development and sparks inflammation that can lead to leukemia, according to findings published in ...