The causes of Alzheimer’s disease have long puzzled researchers, especially when most older adults show signs of the illness ...

New genetic research challenges the traditional view of Stone Age tombs in Ireland, revealing they were community burial ...

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A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease is actually a cause of it, due to its previously unknown secondary function that triggers a pathway that ...

Researchers have discovered that a gene previously seen as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease, PHGDH, actually plays a ...

The largest study to date on testicular germ cell tumours (TGCTs) has revealed a potential link between testicular cancer risk and rare genetic v ...

Among the major classes of RNAs in the cell, tRNAs remain the most difficult to characterize via deep sequencing approaches, as tRNA structure and nucleotide modifications can each interfere with cDNA ...

Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations—referred ...

An international research team has provided a detailed insight into how the spatial organization of genetic material is established in the cell nucleus of early embryos within the first hours after ...

New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

Early DNA Organization is Robust and FlexibleWhen the egg and sperm fuse, a comprehensive reorganization of DNA begins within ...

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has confirmed that MM exhibits high intra-tumor heterogeneity, comprising a mixture of ...