Genetics & Molecular Biology

A new review posits that the DNA damage response (DDR) of our cells that fights off cancer can also become overactivated - and cause our tissues to age faster. The paper collates 16 candidate tumor…

An old saying is that dogs age seven years for each human one and a new study finds that the comparisons between humans and man's best friend are even closer than that. The work associated small…

About a third of the world's corn production uses a legacy hybrid rather than modern science and a new study finds that  grain yield in intermediate-maturity hybrids could be plagued by a…

Protein-maxxing is the latest rage in people who learn just enough science to be wrong about nutrition health, but if you adopted a gluten-free diet despite not being celiac, that vaccines cause…

Marek’s disease, a deadly illness that infects chickens, is caused by the herpes virus but was never given gain of function funding to try and see how it would infect mammals the way H5N1 and…

In the 1980s, scientists captured the precise mechanics of a protein machine. It looked strange, to researchers its tall thin structure with stubby legs invoked the enchanted broomstick that stole…

More men than women develop Parkinson’s disease and new work presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies says that it is do to sex differences in how brain cells change. Parkinson…

You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than that. Rather, cancer is a tightly controlled cellular neighborhood that…