All species of big cats, including tigers, cheetahs, leopards, lions, snow leopards, and jaguars, are protected under the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). This is ...

Why do human brains vary in size and shape, and how did our brains expand over evolutionary time to give us our enhanced ...

DNA in museum collections harbours rich information on the past population genetics of endangered species, including butterflies. The remnant (meta)populations of Euphydryas maturna (Nymphalidae), a ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment opportunity for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. The discovery, ...

The human genome has to be carefully organized so it will fit inside of the nuclei of cells, while also remaining accessible to the cellular machinery that works to express the right genes at the ...

Every cell in the human body contains about 2 meters of DNA, roughly the length of a bed. Though too small to see with the naked eye, DNA is intricately organized, allowing it to govern cellular ...

In biology textbooks and beyond, the human genome and DNA therein typically are taught in only one dimension. While it can be helpful for learners to begin with the linear presentation of how ...

The genome is more than a linear code; it is a dynamic structure whose three-dimensional folding dictates how genes are regulated. Traditional sequencing technologies capture base-level variation but ...

This study is led by Dr. Yue Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Modulation Research, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, ...

A single transcription factor may hold the keys to how skin ages, according to new research published in BMC Biology that ...

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, or GAPDH, has spent more than a century in the textbooks as one of biology’s most dependable workhorses: a glycolytic enzyme that helps cells extract energy f ...