Before she died, she made a remarkable request: she asked doctors to study her DNA to understand what made her the world’s ...

It’s supposed to fight off invaders to keep us healthy. But sometimes it turns traitor and attacks our own cells and tissues.

Therefore, EDA and aneuploidy rates represent two independent factors in determining the number of euploid embryos available for transfer and the ...

The health impacts of men losing their Y chromosome from their cells are increasingly coming to light, with the loss playing ...

Scientists still don’t fully understand why women live longer than men. The aging process differs between the sexes, and in ...

UC Davis nematologists, including Valerie Williamson, professor emerita in the Department of Plant Pathology, and associate ...

Hosts David and Gina explore how scientists over the centuries unlocked the ability to edit our genes ...

For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited her bonus years not to any ...

Nematologists have long wondered how the the Northern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne hapla) is able to infect such a wide ...

The University of Wisconsin’s Lim Lab has identified the cause of chromosome instability associated with a range of genetic ...

A mouse study led by University of California, Riverside, biomedical scientists suggests that everyday exposure to ...

Another finding the researchers report from their experiments is that microplastics triggered harmful gene activity in both mouse and human endothelial cells. Exposure to microplastics was found to ...