Evolution was supposed to be unpredictable. A new study suggests otherwise, at least when it comes to the wings of ...

A new study identifies PTCHD1-AS as a key non-coding gene that shapes social and repetitive behaviors in autism without affecting cognition.

A strange pair of “hugging skeletons” unearthed next to a 13th-century Polish cathedral has been confirmed to be the ...

Genetic rule broken: Researchers found ciliates that treat stop codons as amino acid instructions, defying the universal genetic code. Two remarkable cases: Condylostoma magnum reassigns all three ...

Deep learning models used to understand how isoleucine could be replaced in proteins without disrupting their structures ...

The rare species of Ebola involved - known as Bundibugyo - kills around a third of those infected and has no proven vaccine ...

Rule-breaking discovery: A freshwater ciliate uses stop codons to build amino acids instead of ending proteins, defying the 'universal' genetic code. Genetic code flexibility: The organism reassigns ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

A long-overlooked stretch of the human genome appears to play a distinct role in shaping the social and stereotypic ...

A long‑overlooked stretch of the human genome appears to play a distinct role in shaping the social and stereotypic ...

Scientists for the first time have mapped out the molecular "switches" that can turn on or silence individual genes in the DNA in more than 100 types of human cells, an accomplishment that reveals the ...