Scientists found that messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that carry genetic instructions to the far reaches of neurons in the ...

Two new studies show how climate influences behavior, communication, and genome evolution—driving adaptation in a ...

People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of “survival of the ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

Wood warblers, also called New World warblers, are some of the most colorful birds in North America, with more than a hundred ...

Renowned molecular biologist Yunsun Nam, Ph.D., Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Doris and ...

Research into wood warblers shows that gene sharing across species played a key role in shaping their bright feather colors.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...

In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one years ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...