A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

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

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

Exploring the genetic factors that make golden retrievers more susceptible to cancer than other dog breeds, researchers identified a gene associated with longevity that’s related to a gene that causes ...