Geneticists have found a mechanism sought for more than four decades that explains how gene duplication leads to novel functions in individuals.  Gene duplication is a biological phenomenon…

Epigenetics has been used and abused in many ways - can it tell researchers that an expectant mother had no electricity for a few days? In January of 1998, what came to be called the North American…

Melatonin, a hormone that governs sleep and jet lag in humans, may also drive the mass migration of plankton in the ocean, according to a report by scientists at the European Molecular Biology…

A person's face is the first thing that others see, and much remains unknown about how it forms — or malforms — during early development. Recently, Chong Pyo Choe, a senior postdoctoral fellow…

Credit: Jeremy Keith via Flickrhttp://bit.ly/1yiCYYT. Rights information: http://bit.ly/NL51dk By Benjamin Plackett, Inside Science -- (Inside Science) Eating too much meat often makes the headlines…

A longstanding question in science has the role of mitochondria in debilitating and fatal motor neuron diseases. Mitochondria are organelles – compartments contained inside cells – that serve…

Circular RNA were discovered a few years ago, but their role in our bodies is poorly understood.  Our genetic information is stored in DNA, tiny strands of nucleic acid that contain instructions…

There is never enough of this golden beauty. Credit: bradhigham, CC BY By Angela White, University of Sheffield Improving wheat is a major challenge for agricultural scientists. The world’s…

Humans may think we are eating paleo - like ancient ancestors - or organic - like before the advent of modern fertilizers and pesticides in the early 1800s - but nothing could be further from the…

That DNA makes RNA which makes protein is a simplified explanation molecular biologists use to explain for how genetic information is deciphered and translated in living organisms. The process is…