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Obesity risk genes make people feel hungrier and lose control over their eating, but practicing dietary restraint could counteract this.

While animal cells may use the cytoskeleton to pull materials during division, it seems that plant cells push the microtubules of the cytoskeleton away.

Viruses in man-made environments cause public health concerns, but they are generally less studied than bacteria. A recent study provided the first evidence of frequent interactions between viruses and bacteria in man-made environments.

All cells have their own power plants, called mitochondria. There are often more than 100 mitochondria per cell and each possesses their own genome, which in turn contains genes responsible for energy production.

An antisense therapy restores production of the protein FMRP in cell samples taken from patients with fragile X syndrome.

Researchers have engineered a new way to genetically suppress populations of the mosquitoes that primarily spread malaria in Africa.

According to murine research, a diet high in soybean oil decreased beneficial bacteria and increased harmful bacteria in the gut.

A research team found that the streamlined cell can evolve just as fast as a normal cell, demonstrating the capacity for organisms to adapt, even with an unnatural genome that would seemingly provide little flexibility.

University of Queensland researchers have used genetics to reveal that much of the risk of developing a common and sometimes fatal intestinal disease is inherited.

CONSTANS (CO), a well-known member of the B-box family, is the major component of the photoperiodically regulated flowering and circadian pathways in Arabidopsis.