Once considered cellular junk, non-coding RNAs are emerging as key players in everything from brain development to cancer — ...

For decades, scientists studying brain disorders have focused almost exclusively on proteins and the genes encoding them. Now ...

Human genes are written in long strings of three-letter units composed of four different nucleotides. These units—or ...

A research team led by Professor Dr. Niels Gehring from the Institute for Genetics has shown that the coordinated interaction ...

When AlphaFold solved the protein-folding problem in 2020, it showed that artificial intelligence could crack one of biology’s deepest mysteries: how a string of amino acids folds itself into a ...

Inherited variations in antibody genes can affect how we respond to infections and vaccines, show two new studies from ...

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects about 7 million Americans, a figure that is expected to nearly double by 2050, according to the ...

Small RNAs play a major role in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Specific RNA profiles show distinct changes in the brain, especially in younger people.

Weizmann Institute researchers have used AI and experimental biology to identify three new families of proteins that viruses ...

For millennia, evolution has intrigued many great thinkers, prompting questions about how new traits emerge as species adapt over time. Then, attention shifted to natural selection and the inheritance ...