Genetic engineering in non-human primates has long been limited by the need for virus-based gene delivery methods. Recently, researchers in Japan successfully used a nonviral system to introduce a ...

Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

In a nutshell Scientists temporarily reversed feather evolution in chickens by blocking a key developmental pathway, causing ...

Gaining an understanding of RNA epigenetic modifications offers opportunities for identifying new biomarkers and drug targets that are associated with diseases such as cancer and neurological ...

Wu Kaimin was worried her dissertation proposal might not be approved. Now, her research could fundamentally alter how ...

Laser Biomedical Research Center, G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States ...

Brook trout may have a genetic trick up their scales when it comes to adapting, with limitations, to heatwaves that threaten their existence. Scientists have known for years that brook trout -- an ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...

Gene expression testing helps determine chemotherapy needs for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, optimizing treatment ...

A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees stress and could eventually give insight into why bee populations are ...

“Often when people hear the expression ‘genetic modification’ what comes to ... and – literally – edit targeted genes to ...