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A team of researchers has identified more than 40 new “imprinted” genes, in which either the maternal or paternal copy of a gene is expressed while the other is silenced.

NIH mouse study overturns scientific ideas on energy distribution in muscle.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University have engineered a tethered ribosome that works nearly as well as the authentic cellular component, or organelle, that produces all the proteins and enzymes within the cell.

Genetic predisposition for long telomeres predicts increased lung adenocarcinoma risk.

A new technology reveals that immune system genes switch on and off differently in women and men, and the source of that variation is not primarily in the DNA.

Using a climate model that can tag sources of soot from different global regions and can track where it lands on the Tibetan Plateau, researchers have determined which areas around the plateau contribute the most soot — and where.

Aaron Dinner, professor in chemistry, and his graduate student Herman Gudjonson are trying to read the manual of life, DNA, as part of the Dinner group’s research into bioinformatics—the application of statistics to biological research.

Provides positive sample tracking, maximizes quality and throughput in population-scale genomics workflows.

Shuwen Biotech will develop companion diagnostic assays and kits.

Mice that have a particular brain chemical switched off become hyperactive and sleep for just 65 per cent of their normal time.