The cancer gene MYC camouflages tumors by suppressing alarm signals that normally activate the immune system. This finding from a new study offers a promising way to improve existing cancer therapies ...

Tanya Paull, a professor of molecular biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as one of 16 fellows of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology class of ...

A genetic study shows how human breeding choices influence ear length in dogs and why those traits persist across breeds.

Modern DNA kits make it easy to learn where your ancestors came from—just order a test, swab your cheek, and mail it to a lab ...

A deep learning framework combines convolutional and bidirectional recurrent networks to improve protein function prediction from genomic ...

Life Extension reports women live 5.4 years longer than men due to biological and behavioral factors, but men can narrow this ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Your chronological age can’t always tell you the state of your health, which is why biological clocks have been developed to show our risk of developing diseases or dying – but they’re not all they ...

A new study found that women in Finland who had a lot of kids—or none—aged faster than those with one or a few kids. But the ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created a new way to improve our understanding of the ...

Could this mark a shift in how we think about cancer therapy? At least in the laboratory, evidence suggests it may be.

An international research team has succeeded in deciphering a key mechanism that controls the growth of pancreatic cancers.