Genetics and drug discovery had its origins in the 1980s with the development of positional cloning technology—that is, using genetic markers to map and identify the genes responsible for Mendelian ...

Researchers used ShortStop to Identify a microprotein that potentially represents a biomarker or functional microprotein for lung cancer.

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these ...

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death globally, often diagnosed in later stages due to subtle or absent ...

Human drinking culture may owe a debt to great apes who forage boozy fermented fruit from the forest floor, scientists ...

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. They can spend months without food or water, muscles refusing to atrophy, ...

Scientists found genetic elements linked to hibernation in the human genome. Tapping into them could produce a new wave of ...

Hibernating animals' amazing abilities could lie within our own DNA—and perhaps their resilience could one day be ours too.

How much carbon can the ocean absorb, and what happens to it as the planet warms? Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer ...

Cancer cells mount an instant, energy‑rich response to being physically squeezed, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications.