Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered that a novel long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), which are usually 200 ...

Human healthy aging and longevity are complex phenomena influenced by a dynamic interplay of genetic, epigenetic, metabolic, immune, and environmental factors.

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps ...

There are more male orange cats than females because this gene is located on the X-chromosome, which males only have one copy ...

Objective Sjögren’s disease (SjD) is an autoimmune disease characterised by inflammatory destruction of exocrine glands. Patients with autoantibodies to Ro/SSA (SjD Ro+) exhibit more severe disease.

Scientists in the U.K., Australia and China have identified a brain molecule called NEAT1 that appears to play a central role ...

Edited by* Keith R. Yamamoto, University of California, San Francisco, CA, and approved October 19, 2011 (received for review August 17, 2011) CHART is a hybridization-based strategy that uses ...