Since the late 1980s, gene therapy, more than virtually any other type of therapy, has given rise not only to high expectations of treatmen...

A diverse family of bacteria that can cause a potentially fatal illness in humans but could offer a greener alternative to petrol to power o...

New research from The University of Western Ontario leads investigators to believe that woolly mammoths living north of the Arctic Circle du...

The presence of introns in genes requires cells to process "messenger RNA" molecules before synthesizing proteins, a process that ...

Complexity ever in the eye of its beholders, the animal with the most genes -- about 31,000 -- is the near-microscopic freshwater crustacean...

Fruit flies that moved from sub-Saharan Africa found themselves confronted by conditions very different from those to which they were accust...

The University at Buffalo is a key partner in a $7.3 million, multi-institution collaboration to explore the origins of all flowers by seque...

Whether different odors can be quickly distinguished depends on certain synapses in the brain that inhibit nerve stimulation. The researcher...

A series of novel imaging agents could light up tumors as they begin to form – before they turn deadly – and signal their transition to aggr...

One in 25 people from India and other south Asian countries carries a mutated gene that causes heart failure. Studying this gene, and the ...