Chloride ions, best known for helping cells maintain fluid balance and electrical stability, may also play a more direct role ...

Responding to reports from peer reviewers is a crucial part of scientific publishing, but early-career researchers are rarely taught about this process.

New Study Links Common Sweeteners to Long-Term Metabolic Changes Across Generations That “zero-calorie” sweetener in your ...

Stem cells are the body's ultimate shape-shifters, sustaining tissues by balancing two competing demands: maintaining their ...

A new study finds the proteins responsible for controlling which genes are expressed in a genome do more than simply turn a ...

Gene editing has emerged as a powerful approach for targeting the genetic causes of disease, but getting the editing ...

This important study advances a new computational approach to measure and visualize gene expression specificity across different tissues and cell types. The framework is potentially helpful for ...

A new study finds the proteins responsible for controlling which genes are expressed in a genome do more than simply turn a ...

Researchers are gaining a new appreciation for the genes on the X and Y chromosomes and how they shape sex differences in ...

Transposable elements have proliferated in the bacterium Enterococcus faecium, altering its metabolism and genome structure.

A gene called KLF5 may be a key force behind the spread of pancreatic cancer—but not in the way scientists expected. Rather than mutating DNA, it rewires how genes are turned on and off, helping ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have carried out the most detailed mapping to date of the epigenome in the cells ...