One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA that were ...

A portion of our genome that was once dismissed as being “junk” may actually play an important role in regulating gene ...

The late Ozzy Osbourne was able to see his musical legacy celebrated in a final farewell concert just a few days before his ...

Apart from carrying the information to encode proteins in, RNA molecules can adopt intricate 2D and 3D structures. Specifically, the same RNA molecule can switch between ON and OFF structures, ...

Got junk? Learn how a new study suggests that, when it comes to our genetic code, that may actually be a good thing.

Zoonoses—diseases that spread from animals to humans—began to gain prevalence some 6,500 years ago with the rise of animal ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...