Across social media and city sidewalks, certain dog breeds have become icons of modern pet ownership. French Bulldogs, ...

In the Rice DNA Discovery Center, peek directly inside our state-of-the-art genetic research facility, the Pritzker Laboratory for Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Systematics. Scientists are in the ...

The genetic data of hundreds of thousands of Emiratis could help to boost understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and develop ...

A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, and they're infected with a strain of the virus that hasn't been ...

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Zoos and wildlife parks across North America are home to hundreds of giraffes that awe millions of visitors each year. These ...

Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, have uncovered the hidden code governing how genetic mutations affect RNA splicing and result in disease. The researchers were able to ...

A new scientific analysis has uncovered a direct genetic link between higher cognitive function in childhood and a longer lifespan. The findings suggest that some of the same genetic factors ...

The contribution of genetics to the variability in people’s metabolism has remained largely unknown. This is, in part, because genetic studies of human metabolism have been limited in scale and ...

Illustration of spherical nucleic acid SNA nanoparticle carrying CRISPR cargo – Image by the Mirkin Research Group University scientists in Chicago have developed a new nanostructure that triples ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a genetic optimization method for the construction of non-binary quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (NB-QC-LDPC) codes with short block lengths. In our scheme, the ...

URBANA, Ill. – Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way ...