Researchers have found that certain bacteria carry a naturally occurring system, built from repurposed CRISPR components, ...

In their landmark 1961 paper on the lac operon, Nobel laureates François Jacob and Jacques Monod speculated that RNA might control gene activity in bacteria through base-pairing interactions. But once ...

Patients with this genetic disorder have a form of dwarfism — they are short in stature and have underdeveloped ears and ...

A stealthy parasite behind deadly sleeping sickness has been caught using an astonishing trick to evade the human immune system. Credit: Shutterstock A deadly parasite stays hidden by shredding its ...

Findings suggest that new genes can form by repurposing fragments of ancestral genes while incorporating entirely new coding regions (the protein-coding parts of the DNA). This innovative concept ...

Large-scale protein and gene profiling have massively expanded the landscape of cancer-associated proteins and gene mutations, but it has been difficult to discern whether they play an active role in ...

For many people, "protein" is the key element of a food order. However, beyond the preferred choice of meats or plant-based ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in how people interact or ...