A single amino acid change in a neuronal ion channel called KCNQ2 blocks ion flow, prevents protein localization on axons, and results in severe epilepsy and slowed neurological development.

It’s been an eventful year for Texas hook and bullet crowds. Among other things, we saw the opening of the first new major ...

Thankfully, Rowan has some electrifying backup. In addition to the introduction of Ben Feldman (Superstore) as Rowan’s former ...

A study at UT Arlington sequencing the pest's genome could help prevent outbreaks. Bedbugs—the mere mention of these tiny, ...

Auvinen et al. examine genome-wide DNA methylation, imprinting, and gene expression in human placentas. Placentas from assisted reproductive technologies experience a variety of altered signaling ...

This important study leverages the power of Drosophila genetics and sparsely-labeled neurons to propose a new model for neuronal injury signaling. The authors present convincing evidence to support ...

The initiative follows a decision from the Emirates Genome Council, approved during the UAE government's annual meetings ...

The exploration of peptides as bioregulatory molecules has gained considerable attention in recent years, with a particular ...

Next to the aforementioned retinal diseases—which by virtue of degenerative, rhegmatogenous, exudative complications, or a combination thereof, worsen over time leading to progressive ...

A pair of studies analysed samples of modern human and Neanderthal DNA spanning 50,000 years of human history to discover when the two groups bred. Both studies suggested this inter-species ...

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