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Over two decades after the first human genome was sequenced, a team of researchers has discovered ~1 million new exons in the human genome.

Researchers at Duke University have been making movies by peering at stem cells near the root’s tip and taking snapshots as they divide and multiply over time, using a technique called light sheet microscopy.

A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the immune system in the blood of Alzheimer’s patients is epigenetically altered. That means the patients’ behavior or environment has caused changes that affect the way their genes work.

A new layer of human gene regulation, in the form of a molecular process called "backtracking", has been discovered that may influence basic life processes like cell division.

A distinctive-looking insect, the snakefly has remained fairly unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs. Its genome has now been sequenced, revealing its evolutionary history.

Gonorrhea bacterium can use sex hormones, including those found in oral contraceptives, to help it resist antibiotics.

In a new study on mice, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University in Sweden show that connective tissue cells called fibroblasts have a previously unknown and very important function in mediating erection.

Experimental corn lines with resistance to four pathogens have been developed., taking researchers a step closer to corn that can withstand changing disease dynamics.

Researchers developed a computational approach to spatially resolve the within read variability or “disorder” in DNA methylation patterns and test if age-associated changes in DNA methylation disorder underlie signals comprising epigenetic clocks.

By applying optogenetic techniques to turn off neurons in the superior colliculus, researchers have discovered this brain structure's important function in visual processing.