A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

The activity on this page was designed by science education experts to explain and visualise the three stages of mitosis. By interacting with the activity, you'll see the mitosis phases and ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

The rate that our heart or liver ages may differ from that of our immune or hormonal systems, and now it seems that a single ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function.

In a new study conducted at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, researchers from the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) have shown that the loss of a key male fertility gene leads to ...

High school dropout is commonly seen as the result of a long-term process of failure and disengagement. As useful as it is, this view has obscured the heterogeneity of pathways leading to dropout.

Aging is a complex biological process characterized by the gradual decline in physiological functions, leading to increased vulnerability to various ...