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 ...

Antibiotic resistance and tolerance are thought to be the key phenotypic traits that underpin evolutionary adaptation to antibiotics. However, the concepts of resistance and tolerance can be traced ...

Had you queried DeepSeek, a Chinese AI, however, you would have got quite different advice. “Seek compromise,” it suggests, ...

For a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma—the most common infant cancer, occurring when early nerve cells grow out of ...

The immune system depends on molecular alarms that detect danger inside cells. One of these alarms is STING, short for ...

Scientists tracking blind Mexican cavefish uncover a striking evolutionary reversal where existing brain circuits are rewired via dopamine to flip behavioral responses to light.

Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...

Peas are essential for human nutrition and played a crucial role in the discovery of Mendelian laws of inheritance. In this study, we assembled the genome of the elite vegetable pea cultivar ‘Zhewan ...