Researchers unveil the inner mechanisms of the most intricate and complex molecular machine in human biology. Scientists at ...

What gives an Australian finch its brilliantly colored red, yellow or orange bill? A major new study has uncovered the ...

Political scientist Kevin Smith says his research suggests “political orientations are at least partially under genetic ...

The CRISPR molecular scissors have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of genetic diseases. This is because they can ...

The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

WashU biologists, led by Xuehua Zhong in Arts & Sciences, investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their ...

An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the ...

The Saint Louis University Biology Department offers courses with hands-on learning opportunities from cellular structures to fish, birds, reptiles and mammals. Essentials of Biology is a non-majors ...

In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first ...

Cingolani, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, recently came to UAB to head the new Center ...