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New research adds to our understanding of the function of the human genome. An international team of researchers has made ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a unique genetic mechanism that provides cells ...

While evolution involves changes in organisms that ... in the genetic blueprints -- the genes-- that are carried in their cells. Each gene is a chemical recipe for a protein that the cell ...

Why has the hereditary trait in which the red blood cells are sickle-shaped persisted for so many generations? The surprising answer is that under some conditions it is actually beneficial ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the trajectory towards the optimum? And can we 'derive' it in a purely ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

A new study reveals evidence of electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals. This elaborate example of cell communication offers key ...