The University of Alabama at Birmingham says a new expansion to the Heersink School of Medicine will bring in a new ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.

Around 45 percent of human DNA is made up of transposable elements, or TEs—genetic leftovers from now-extinct viruses that scientists once believed to be “junk DNA.” But that view is changing, and a ...

The number of people living with dementia worldwide was estimated at 57 million in 2021 with nearly 10 million new cases ...

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have published an analysis that reveals new functions of the ...