Hillsborough recently opened its doors to over 330 students and staff from 21 schools across Northern Ireland, as part of its ...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) stands as a cornerstone in global agriculture, crucially nourishing over half of the world's population. As a model organism for ...

A new tool greatly improves scientists' ability to identify and study proteins that regulate gene activity in cells, ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb.

Scientists analyzed data from more than one million users of 23andMe and found associations between certain genes and ...

HHMI Janelia Research Campus Senior Group Leader Meng Wang and her team study longevity. They've shown that by overexpressing ...

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Glow-in-the-dark plants are not new. In fact, scientists created ...

As I sat down to write my weekly post, I had originally been thinking that, as much as I say that I’m tired of writing about our Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., I ...

Kelli Lehto, Associate Professor of Neuropsychiatric Genomics at the University of Tartu, is leading a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grant project that brings together genetics, ...

Adhering to a Mediterranean diet has been found to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease even among individuals who are genetically predisposed to developing the neurodegenerative condition, ...

"Medications used to treat gout … are very effective when taken consistently, but adherence rates to these medications are among the lowest of any chronic disease," Dr. Chen Xie, a rheumatologist at ...